linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ASoC: qcom: add missing MODULE

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Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2024 17:46:14 +0300
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc: Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@...cinc.com>,
	Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>,
	Banajit Goswami <bgoswami@...cinc.com>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
	Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>,
	alsa-devel@...a-project.org, linux-sound@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel@...cinc.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ASoC: qcom: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro

On Tue, Jun 04, 2024 at 12:56:09PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 03, 2024 at 05:16:07PM -0700, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> > make allmodconfig && make W=1 C=1 reports:
> > WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in sound/soc/qcom/snd-soc-qcom-sdw.o
> 
> Is anyone getting any value from these MODULE_DESCRIPTION()s?  This all
> just seems like a huge amount of noise and I'm having trouble thinking
> of a use case.

The missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() warnings are very annoying.  We
recently missed a link error issue because the warning was drowned out
in MODULE_DESCRIPTION() warnings.
https://lore.kernel.org/all/202405182038.ncf1mL7Z-lkp@intel.com/

regards,
dan carpenter