linux-kernel - [PATCH 18/27] mtd: bcm63xxpart: remove MODULE

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Date:   Fri, 24 Feb 2023 15:08:02 +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>,
        Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>,
        linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 18/27] mtd: bcm63xxpart: 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: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
Cc: Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>
Cc: linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org
---
 drivers/mtd/parsers/bcm63xxpart.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/parsers/bcm63xxpart.c b/drivers/mtd/parsers/bcm63xxpart.c
index b15bdadaedb5..6e7b1ae8f58f 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/parsers/bcm63xxpart.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/parsers/bcm63xxpart.c
@@ -164,7 +164,6 @@ static struct mtd_part_parser bcm63xx_cfe_parser = {
 };
 module_mtd_part_parser(bcm63xx_cfe_parser);
 
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Daniel Dickinson <openwrt@...ore.neomailbox.net>");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Florian Fainelli <florian@...nwrt.org>");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Mike Albon <malbon@...nwrt.org>");
-- 
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303