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

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Thu Nov 02 2017 - 14:21:48 EST


On Thu, 2 Nov 2017, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 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.

The wreckage is with the *.lds.S ones which are used to generate .lds with
some gcc preprocessor magic. And then ld falls flat on its nose with the //
comment.

Thanks,

tglx