On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 17:10 +0200, Armin Schindler wrote: > On Tue, 5 Apr 2011, Michal Marek wrote: > > The kernel already prints its build timestamp during boot, no need to > > repeat it in random drivers and produce different object files each > > time. > > The module can be build separately from the kernel, therefore it can have > an own build timestamp. [...] If you want to distribute an out-of-tree version, that's your own business. It shouldn't limit what is done with the in-tree version. Perhaps we could make modpost add a build timestamp to OOT modules, though. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
