[PATCH 10/17] tty: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

Nick Alcock
2023-03-02T23:27:20Z

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@oracle.com>
Suggested-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-modules@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Hitomi Hasegawa <hasegawa-hitomi@fujitsu.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
---
drivers/tty/n_null.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/n_null.c b/drivers/tty/n_null.c
index f913b665af725..c24f75942c49d 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/n_null.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/n_null.c
@@ -63,7 +63,6 @@ static void __exit n_null_exit(void)
module_init(n_null_init);
module_exit(n_null_exit);

-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
MODULE_AUTHOR("Alan Cox");
MODULE_ALIAS_LDISC(N_NULL);
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Null ldisc driver");
--
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303