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Re: [PATCH 1/8] x86: don't use module.h just for AUTHOR / LICENSE tags

From Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 1/8] x86: don't use module.h just for AUTHOR / LICENSE tags
Date 2016-07-14 02:30 +0200
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On 7/13/2016 5:18 PM, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> The Kconfig controlling compilation of these files are:
>
> arch/x86/Kconfig.debug:config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST
> arch/x86/Kconfig.debug: bool "Testcase for the marking rodata read-only"
>
> arch/x86/Kconfig.debug:config X86_PTDUMP_CORE
> arch/x86/Kconfig.debug: def_bool n
>
> ...meaning that it currently is not being built as a module by anyone.
>
> Lets remove the couple traces of modular infrastructure use, so that
> when reading the driver there is no doubt it is builtin-only.
>
> We delete the MODULE_LICENSE tag etc. since all that information
> is already contained at the top of the file in the comments.
>
> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>

Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>

original these were tested as modules, but they really shouldn't be modules
in the normal kernel (and aren't per Kconfig)

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