linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mtd: add missing MODULE

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Message-ID: <4f7e3e79-9eec-4a84-a19c-ef26760250c7@quicinc.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 09:17:47 -0700
From: Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@...cinc.com>
To: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>,
        Richard Weinberger
	<richard@....at>,
        Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>
CC: <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macros

On 6/10/2024 10:07 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> With ARCH=x86, make allmodconfig && make W=1 C=1 reports:
> WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in drivers/mtd/parsers/brcm_u-boot.o
> WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in drivers/mtd/parsers/tplink_safeloader.o
> WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_util.o
> WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0020.o
> WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in drivers/mtd/maps/map_funcs.o
> 
> Add the missing invocations of the MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@...cinc.com>
> ---
> Corrections to these descriptions are welcomed. I'm not an expert in
> this code so in most cases I've taken these descriptions directly from
> code comments, Kconfig descriptions, or git logs.  History has shown
> that in some cases these are originally wrong due to cut-n-paste
> errors, and in other cases the drivers have evolved such that the
> original information is no longer accurate.
> ---
>  drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0020.c     | 1 +
>  drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_util.c            | 1 +
>  drivers/mtd/maps/map_funcs.c            | 1 +
>  drivers/mtd/parsers/brcm_u-boot.c       | 1 +
>  drivers/mtd/parsers/tplink_safeloader.c | 1 +
>  5 files changed, 5 insertions(+)

Following up to see if anything else is needed from me. Hoping to see this in
linux-next so I can remove it from my tracking spreadsheet :)

/jeff