On Tue, 5 Apr 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote:

On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 17:10 +0200, Armin Schindler wrote:

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On Tue, 5 Apr 2011, Michal Marek wrote:

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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'.

Armin