Re: [PATCH] script: modpost: require a MODULE_DESCRIPTION()

[Masahiro Yamada]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 4:49 AM Jeff Johnson
<jeff.johnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Since commit 1fffe7a34c89 ("script: modpost: emit a warning when the
> description is missing"), a module without a MODULE_DESCRIPTION() has
> resulted in a warning with make W=1. Since that time, all known
> instances of this issue have been fixed. Therefore, now make it an
> error if a MODULE_DESCRIPTION() is not present.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Johnson <jeff.johnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> did my treewide cleanup for v6.11, Arnd had a few more stragglers that
> he was going to fix. I hope that by posting, some of the 0-day bots
> will pick it up and hopefully provide some feedback.


I pushed this patch to a separate branch,
so that 0day bot can compile-test it.

If there is no error reported, I will move it to
the for-next branch.




> Note: I'm not really sure if *all* of these have been fixed. After I
> ---
>  scripts/mod/modpost.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
> index c35d22607978..c0b7a869ed24 100644
> --- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
> +++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
> @@ -1596,8 +1596,8 @@ static void read_symbols(const char *modname)
>                                                      namespace);
>                 }
>
> -               if (extra_warn && !get_modinfo(&info, "description"))
> -                       warn("missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in %s\n", modname);
> +               if (!get_modinfo(&info, "description"))
> +                       error("missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in %s\n", modname);
>         }
>
>         for (sym = info.symtab_start; sym < info.symtab_stop; sym++) {
>
> ---
> base-commit: 4d872d51bc9d7b899c1f61534e3dbde72613f627
> change-id: 20250311-moddesc-error-2ad949dcc6ba
>


-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada