[PATCH v2 1/2] Staging: unisys: remove references to __DATE__ and __TIME__

Greg KH gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Fri Jun 27 00:15:20 UTC 2014


On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 09:55:55AM -0500, Ken Cox wrote:
> The use of __DATE__ and __TIME__ is no longer allowed in the kernel so this
> commit removes those.  They were once useful when the drivers were being
> built externally, but now that the drivers are in the kernel the use of the
> macros is redundant since the kernel already has the same information
> elsewhere.

The main reason for this is to do deterministic builds, not just because
of "redundant information".

thanks,

greg k-h


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