Re: [GIT PULL] License cleanup: add SPDX license identifiers to some kernel files

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Nov 02 2017 - 14:19:04 EST


On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 11:02 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Oh I wish that were the case :(
>
> Thomas and I fought with the vdso build logic[1], and some other
> arch-specific stuff for a good day trying to track down all of the
> individual .h files that were getting pulled in by gcc to spit out a .S
> file.

Hmm. I thought we fixed those things long ago..

Commit fe58fc8f4025 ("x86: wipe out traditional opt from x86_64
Makefile") removed our use of -traditional back in 2008.

But I do note that the PPC build still seems to have it.

But yeah, maybe there is something else odd about *.S files still.

Linus