linux-kernel - [PATCH 03/17] braille_console: remove MODULE

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Message-Id: <20230302211759.30135-4-nick.alcock@oracle.com>
Date:   Thu,  2 Mar 2023 21:17:45 +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>
Subject: [PATCH 03/17] braille_console: 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>
---
 drivers/accessibility/braille/braille_console.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/accessibility/braille/braille_console.c b/drivers/accessibility/braille/braille_console.c
index c4d54a5326b11..06b43b678d6ea 100644
--- a/drivers/accessibility/braille/braille_console.c
+++ b/drivers/accessibility/braille/braille_console.c
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@
 
 MODULE_AUTHOR("samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("braille device");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
 
 /*
  * Braille device support part.
-- 
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303