linux-kernel - [PATCH 17/27] memory: remove MODULE

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Date:   Fri, 24 Feb 2023 15:08:01 +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>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>
Subject: [PATCH 17/27] memory: 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: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>
---
 drivers/memory/bt1-l2-ctl.c   | 1 -
 drivers/memory/da8xx-ddrctl.c | 1 -
 drivers/memory/fsl_ifc.c      | 1 -
 drivers/memory/mvebu-devbus.c | 1 -
 4 files changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/memory/bt1-l2-ctl.c b/drivers/memory/bt1-l2-ctl.c
index 85965fa26e0b..78bd71b203f2 100644
--- a/drivers/memory/bt1-l2-ctl.c
+++ b/drivers/memory/bt1-l2-ctl.c
@@ -321,4 +321,3 @@ module_platform_driver(l2_ctl_driver);
 
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@...kalelectronics.ru>");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Baikal-T1 L2-cache driver");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
diff --git a/drivers/memory/da8xx-ddrctl.c b/drivers/memory/da8xx-ddrctl.c
index b32005bf269c..0ef8cc878b95 100644
--- a/drivers/memory/da8xx-ddrctl.c
+++ b/drivers/memory/da8xx-ddrctl.c
@@ -164,4 +164,3 @@ module_platform_driver(da8xx_ddrctl_driver);
 
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("TI da8xx DDR2/mDDR controller driver");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
diff --git a/drivers/memory/fsl_ifc.c b/drivers/memory/fsl_ifc.c
index e83b61c925a4..9e8d8e9c5ad8 100644
--- a/drivers/memory/fsl_ifc.c
+++ b/drivers/memory/fsl_ifc.c
@@ -327,6 +327,5 @@ static int __init fsl_ifc_init(void)
 }
 subsys_initcall(fsl_ifc_init);
 
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Freescale Semiconductor");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Freescale Integrated Flash Controller driver");
diff --git a/drivers/memory/mvebu-devbus.c b/drivers/memory/mvebu-devbus.c
index efc6c08db2b7..406fddcdba02 100644
--- a/drivers/memory/mvebu-devbus.c
+++ b/drivers/memory/mvebu-devbus.c
@@ -341,6 +341,5 @@ static int __init mvebu_devbus_init(void)
 }
 module_init(mvebu_devbus_init);
 
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@...e-electrons.com>");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Marvell EBU SoC Device Bus controller");
-- 
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