[PATCH 03/27] fbdev: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

Nick Alcock nick.alcock at oracle.com
Fri Feb 24 15:07:47 UTC 2023


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 at oracle.com>
Suggested-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof at kernel.org>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof at kernel.org>
Cc: linux-modules at vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
Cc: Hitomi Hasegawa <hasegawa-hitomi at fujitsu.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller at gmx.de>
Cc: linux-fbdev at vger.kernel.org
Cc: dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
---
 drivers/video/fbdev/imsttfb.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/imsttfb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/imsttfb.c
index bea45647184e..dbfaac0b14a8 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/imsttfb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/imsttfb.c
@@ -1636,7 +1636,6 @@ static void __exit imsttfb_exit(void)
 	pci_unregister_driver(&imsttfb_pci_driver);
 }
 
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
 
 module_init(imsttfb_init);
 module_exit(imsttfb_exit);
-- 
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303



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