linux-kernel - [PATCH 23/24] kbuild, EDAC, altera: remove MODULE

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Message-Id: <20230217141059.392471-24-nick.alcock@oracle.com>
Date:   Fri, 17 Feb 2023 14:10:58 +0000
From:   Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@...cle.com>
To:     mcgrof@...nel.org
Cc:     linux-modules@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Hitomi Hasegawa <hasegawa-hitomi@...itsu.com>,
        Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@...nel.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>, linux-edac@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 23/24] kbuild, EDAC, altera: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

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@...cle.com>
Suggested-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-modules@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Hitomi Hasegawa <hasegawa-hitomi@...itsu.com>
Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@...nel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
Cc: linux-edac@...r.kernel.org
---
 drivers/edac/altera_edac.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/edac/altera_edac.c b/drivers/edac/altera_edac.c
index e7e8e624a436..ba325d4c5e83 100644
--- a/drivers/edac/altera_edac.c
+++ b/drivers/edac/altera_edac.c
@@ -2226,6 +2226,5 @@ static struct platform_driver altr_edac_a10_driver = {
 };
 module_platform_driver(altr_edac_a10_driver);
 
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Thor Thayer");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("EDAC Driver for Altera Memories");
-- 
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303