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SubjectRe: [PATCH v10 05/13] kbuild: remove MODULE_LICENSE/AUTHOR/DESCRIPTION in non-modules
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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