Re: [PATCH] rpadlpar_io:Add MODULE_DESCRIPTION entries to kernel modules

[Oliver O'Halloran]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 3:15 PM Mamatha Inamdar
<mamatha4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This patch adds a brief MODULE_DESCRIPTION to rpadlpar_io kernel modules
> (descriptions taken from Kconfig file)
>
> Signed-off-by: Mamatha Inamdar <mamatha4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/pci/hotplug/rpadlpar_core.c |    1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/hotplug/rpadlpar_core.c b/drivers/pci/hotplug/rpadlpar_core.c
> index f979b70..bac65ed 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/hotplug/rpadlpar_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/hotplug/rpadlpar_core.c
> @@ -478,3 +478,4 @@ static void __exit rpadlpar_io_exit(void)
>  module_init(rpadlpar_io_init);
>  module_exit(rpadlpar_io_exit);
>  MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("RPA Dynamic Logical Partitioning driver for I/O slots");

RPA as a spec was superseded by PAPR in the early 2000s. Can we rename
this already?

The only potential problem I can see is scripts doing: modprobe
rpadlpar_io or similar

However, we should be able to fix that with a module alias.

Oliver