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lib: packing: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules 

Since commit 8b41fc4454 ("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: Hitomi Hasegawa <hasegawa-hitomi@fujitsu.com>
Cc: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230308121230.5354-1-nick.alcock@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Nick Alcock 2023-03-08 12:12:29 +00:00 committed by Jakub Kicinski
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@ -198,5 +198,4 @@ int packing(void *pbuf, u64 *uval, int startbit, int endbit, size_t pbuflen,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(packing);
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Generic bitfield packing and unpacking");