[PATCH 05/20] lib: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

From: Nick Alcock
Date: Tue Feb 28 2023 - 08:03:21 EST


Since commit 8b41fc4454e ("kbuild: create modules.builtin without
Makefile.modbuiltin or tristate.conf"), MODULE_LICENSE declarations
are used to identify modules. As a consequence, uses of the macro
in non-modules will cause modprobe to misidentify their containing
object file as a module when it is not (false positives), and modprobe
might succeed rather than failing with a suitable error message.

So remove it in the files in this commit, none of which can be built as
modules.

Signed-off-by: Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@xxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-modules@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Hitomi Hasegawa <hasegawa-hitomi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@xxxxxxxxx>
---
lib/pldmfw/pldmfw.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/pldmfw/pldmfw.c b/lib/pldmfw/pldmfw.c
index 6e77eb6d8e72e..54e1809a38fd9 100644
--- a/lib/pldmfw/pldmfw.c
+++ b/lib/pldmfw/pldmfw.c
@@ -875,5 +875,4 @@ int pldmfw_flash_image(struct pldmfw *context, const struct firmware *fw)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(pldmfw_flash_image);

MODULE_AUTHOR("Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@xxxxxxxxx>");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("PLDM firmware flash update library");
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2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303