linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] USB: serial: add missing MODULE

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Message-ID: <ZsRUP7ZcKvcUBL4t@hovoldconsulting.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2024 10:30:55 +0200
From: Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
To: Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@...cinc.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: serial: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macros

On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 11:44:05AM -0700, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> On 7/5/2024 4:35 AM, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 10:52:54AM -0700, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> >> With ARCH=x86, make allmodconfig && make W=1 C=1 reports:
> >> WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in drivers/usb/serial/ch341.o
> >> WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in drivers/usb/serial/usb_debug.o
> >> WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in drivers/usb/serial/mxuport.o
> >> WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in drivers/usb/serial/navman.o
> >> WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in drivers/usb/serial/qcaux.o
> >> WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial-simple.o
> >> WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in drivers/usb/serial/symbolserial.o
> >>
> >> Add the missing invocations of the MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@...cinc.com>
> > 
> > I amended the commit message with the (recent) commit that added this
> > W=1 warning (and dropped C=1). I also tweaked three descriptions
> > slightly. End result is here:
> > 
> > 	https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/johan/usb-serial.git/commit/?h=usb-next&id=9f4dc05107a6db3743e6b9ea4014cbdc3795682d

> I see this landed in linux-next, but is not currently in Linus' tree for 6.11.
> Will you be able to have this pulled during the merge window?
> I'm trying to eradicate all of these warnings before 6.11 rc-final.

This one is now in Linus' tree.

Johan