linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v10 05/13] kbuild: remove MODULE_LICENSE/AUTHOR/DESCRIPTION in non-modules

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Message-Id: <5f0a5ea7-2d48-435f-aaa0-82b6ef8cfcc5@app.fastmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 06 Dec 2022 22:02:30 +0100
From:   "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...db.de>
To:     "Nick Alcock" <nick.alcock@...cle.com>,
        "Geert Uytterhoeven" <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:     "Luis Chamberlain" <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
        "Masahiro Yamada" <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        linux-modules@...r.kernel.org, linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, eugene.loh@...cle.com,
        kris.van.hees@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 05/13] kbuild: remove MODULE_LICENSE/AUTHOR/DESCRIPTION in
 non-modules

On Tue, Dec 6, 2022, at 21:03, Nick Alcock wrote:
> On 6 Dec 2022, Geert Uytterhoeven uttered the following:
> Only MODULE_LICENSE invokes MODULE_FILE and thus ends up introducing a
> KBUILD_MODOBJS entry that triggers things going wrong iff not a module:
> so only it needs to go out (or be replaced with a variant that doesn't
> invoke MODULE_FILE, if you want to keep the license in too --

That sounds like a better alternative

> but if the thing is no longer a standalone entity at all I'm not sure
> what meaning it could possibly have).

As far as I can tell, the general trend is to make more things modules,
so there is a good chance that these come back eventually. If the
information in the MODULE_LICENSE field isn't wrong, I would just
leave it in there.

    Arnd