From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from verein.lst.de (verein.lst.de [213.95.11.211]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0E9022F3F for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2023 14:49:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by verein.lst.de (Postfix, from userid 2407) id 5EF19227AA8; Wed, 22 Feb 2023 15:48:57 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2023 15:48:56 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Nick Alcock Cc: mcgrof@kernel.org, linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Hitomi Hasegawa , Christoph Hellwig , Marek Szyprowski , iommu@lists.linux.dev Subject: Re: [PATCH 21/27] kbuild, dma-mapping: benchmark: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules Message-ID: <20230222144856.GA14220@lst.de> References: <20230222121453.91915-1-nick.alcock@oracle.com> <20230222121453.91915-22-nick.alcock@oracle.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: iommu@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20230222121453.91915-22-nick.alcock@oracle.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Looks good: Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 12:14:47PM +0000, Nick Alcock wrote: > Since commit 8b41fc4454e ("kbuild: create modules.builtin without > Makefile.modbuiltin or tristate.conf"), MODULE_LICENSE declarations > are used to identify modules. .. but this seems like a really odd design. How is this going to continue working once we can autogenerate the module license section from the SPDX tags, which we eventually really should?