On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 06:07:05PM +0200, Armin Schindler wrote: > On Tue, 5 Apr 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> 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. > > I know out-of-tree stuff doesn't matter here. But I'm thinking > about just doing 'make modules'. If we needs this somehow a generic solution is required. Ad hoc solutions in some modules is not the way to go. Sam -- 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
