linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 21/27] kbuild, dma-mapping: benchmark: remove MODULE

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Date:   Fri, 24 Feb 2023 09:18:39 -0800
From:   Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
To:     Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@...cle.com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        linux-modules@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Hitomi Hasegawa <hasegawa-hitomi@...itsu.com>,
        Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
        iommu@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH 21/27] kbuild, dma-mapping: benchmark: remove
 MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 02:20:16PM +0000, Nick Alcock wrote:
> The only problem that I can see with that is that this stops us using
> MODULE_LICENSE for modinfo construction,

Yes, the requirement shifts to having us *write* the module license
from the combination computation of files from SPDX, so although not
present anymore what changes is a new target / goal in ordering which has
us construct that define for the file.

Easier said than done of course.

  Luis