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

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Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2024 21:20:49 +0200
From: Dragan Simic <dsimic@...jaro.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 2024-06-04 13:56, 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.

FWIW, I find module descriptions useful.  Of course, there are
some of them that don't provide much value, but the well-written
ones are good.