Re: MODULE_DESCRIPTION() patches with no maintainer action

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Jul 15 2024 - 01:35:30 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxxx/
>
> arch/x86/mm/
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240515-testmmiotrace-md-v1-1-10919a8b2842@xxxxxxxxxxx/
>
> drivers/spmi/
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240609-md-drivers-spmi-v1-1-f1d5b24e7a66@xxxxxxxxxxx/
>
> (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