From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Hutchings Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/34] isdn/diva: Drop __TIME__ usage Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 16:37:41 +0100 Message-ID: <1302017861.2932.13.camel@bwh-desktop> References: <1302015561-21047-1-git-send-email-mmarek@suse.cz> <1302015561-21047-13-git-send-email-mmarek@suse.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Michal Marek , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Armin Schindler Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 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.