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Message-ID: <e3639dd9-0a94-41a0-b9d2-93fc1c7b610e@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2024 09:54:12 +0200
From: Helge Deller <deller@....de>
To: Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@...cinc.com>,
 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
 "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
Cc: linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org,
 kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty: vt: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macros

On 6/22/24 08:07, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> With ARCH=i386, make allmodconfig && make W=1 C=1 reports:
> WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in drivers/video/console/mdacon.o
>
> Add the missing invocation of the MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro to all
> files which have a MODULE_LICENSE().
>
> This includes three other files which, although they did not produce a
> warning with the i386 allmodconfig configuration, may cause this
> warning with other configurations.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@...cinc.com>

Patch title adjusted to:
  video: console: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macros

and applied to the fbdev git tree.

Thanks,
Helge

> ---
>   drivers/video/console/mdacon.c      | 1 +
>   drivers/video/console/newport_con.c | 1 +
>   drivers/video/console/sticon.c      | 1 +
>   drivers/video/console/vgacon.c      | 1 +
>   4 files changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/video/console/mdacon.c b/drivers/video/console/mdacon.c
> index c0e1f4554a44..d52cd99cd18b 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/console/mdacon.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/console/mdacon.c
> @@ -561,5 +561,6 @@ static void __exit mda_console_exit(void)
>   module_init(mda_console_init);
>   module_exit(mda_console_exit);
>
> +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("MDA based console driver");
>   MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>
> diff --git a/drivers/video/console/newport_con.c b/drivers/video/console/newport_con.c
> index a51cfc1d560e..242415366074 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/console/newport_con.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/console/newport_con.c
> @@ -744,4 +744,5 @@ static struct gio_driver newport_driver = {
>   };
>   module_driver(newport_driver, gio_register_driver, gio_unregister_driver);
>
> +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("SGI Newport console driver");
>   MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> diff --git a/drivers/video/console/sticon.c b/drivers/video/console/sticon.c
> index 4c7b4959a1aa..f1f3ee8e5e8a 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/console/sticon.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/console/sticon.c
> @@ -391,4 +391,5 @@ static int __init sticonsole_init(void)
>   }
>
>   module_init(sticonsole_init);
> +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("HP STI console driver");
>   MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> diff --git a/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c b/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c
> index 7597f04b0dc7..37bd18730fe0 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c
> @@ -1222,4 +1222,5 @@ void vgacon_register_screen(struct screen_info *si)
>   	vga_si = si;
>   }
>
> +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("VGA based console driver");
>   MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>
> ---
> base-commit: 6ba59ff4227927d3a8530fc2973b80e94b54d58f
> change-id: 20240621-md-i386-drivers-video-console-ae292c09bb67
>