Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754985Ab1DEU2I (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2011 16:28:08 -0400 Received: from pqueueb.post.tele.dk ([193.162.153.10]:35815 "EHLO pqueueb.post.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754579Ab1DEU2F (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2011 16:28:05 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1546 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2011 16:28:05 EDT Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 22:01:53 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Armin Schindler Cc: Ben Hutchings , Michal Marek , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/34] isdn/diva: Drop __TIME__ usage Message-ID: <20110405200153.GA17632@merkur.ravnborg.org> References: <1302015561-21047-1-git-send-email-mmarek@suse.cz> <1302015561-21047-13-git-send-email-mmarek@suse.cz> <1302017861.2932.13.camel@bwh-desktop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1183 Lines: 29 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-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/