linux-kernel - Re: MODULE_DESCRIPTION() patches with no maintainer action

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Message-ID: <2024071518-ridden-election-8118@gregkh>
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 07:35:16 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@...cinc.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org,
	linux-stm32@...md-mailman.stormreply.com,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
	Karol Herbst <karolherbst@...il.com>,
	Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen@...il.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	x86@...nel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@...il.com>,
	Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@...s.st.com>
Subject: Re: MODULE_DESCRIPTION() patches with no maintainer action

On Sun, Jul 14, 2024 at 02:46:19PM -0700, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> Andrew & Greg,
> 
> I hate to bother you with such mundane patches, but the following have been
> posted for a while without any maintainer or reviewer comment or action, and
> they have not yet landed in linux-next.
> 
> What is the path forward to have these MODULE_DESCRIPTION() warnings fixed?
> 
> arch/arm/probes/kprobes/
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240622-md-arm-arch-arm-probes-kprobes-v1-1-0832bd6e45db@quicinc.com/
> 
> arch/x86/mm/
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240515-testmmiotrace-md-v1-1-10919a8b2842@quicinc.com/
> 
> drivers/spmi/
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240609-md-drivers-spmi-v1-1-f1d5b24e7a66@quicinc.com/
> 
> (note that beyond these 3 patches I still have an additional 13 patches which
> need to land in order to fix these warnings tree-wide, but those 13 patches
> have had recent maintainer or reviewer action so I'm not seeking your help at
> this time).

After -rc1 is out, resend them all as a series and cc: the right people
and either me or Andrew can pick them up then and get them merged in
before -final is released.

thanks,

greg k-h