linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the kbuild tree

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Message-ID: <9faf14a1-ba47-46bf-9ddb-629782b8b52d@oss.qualcomm.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 06:52:35 -0700
From: Jeff Johnson <jeff.johnson@....qualcomm.com>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc: Oliver Glitta <glittao@...il.com>,
        Alessandro Carminati <acarmina@...hat.com>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the kbuild tree

On 3/23/2025 4:30 PM, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> After merging the kbuild tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
> ppc64_defconfig) failed like this:
> 
> ERROR: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in lib/kunit/backtrace-suppression-test.o
> ERROR: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in lib/slub_kunit.o
> 
> Caused by commits
> 
>   19f3496e6241 ("kunit: add test cases for backtrace warning suppression")
> 
> from the mm-nonmm-unstable branch of the mm tree and
> 
>   1f9f78b1b376 ("mm/slub, kunit: add a KUnit test for SLUB debugging functionality")
> 
> from Linus' tree (in v5.14rc1) interacting with commit
> 
>   6c6c1fc09de3 ("modpost: require a MODULE_DESCRIPTION()")
> 
> from the kbuild tree.
> 
> I have temporarily reverted the latter commit until the former are
> fixed up.
> 

+Arnd, will you post your changes for these?