Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 06 Dec 2022 22:02:30 +0100 | From | "Arnd Bergmann" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v10 05/13] kbuild: remove MODULE_LICENSE/AUTHOR/DESCRIPTION in non-modules |
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On Tue, Dec 6, 2022, at 21:03, Nick Alcock wrote: > On 6 Dec 2022, Geert Uytterhoeven uttered the following: > Only MODULE_LICENSE invokes MODULE_FILE and thus ends up introducing a > KBUILD_MODOBJS entry that triggers things going wrong iff not a module: > so only it needs to go out (or be replaced with a variant that doesn't > invoke MODULE_FILE, if you want to keep the license in too --
That sounds like a better alternative
> but if the thing is no longer a standalone entity at all I'm not sure > what meaning it could possibly have).
As far as I can tell, the general trend is to make more things modules, so there is a good chance that these come back eventually. If the information in the MODULE_LICENSE field isn't wrong, I would just leave it in there.
Arnd
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