From: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@google.com>
To: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
Cc: "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Arve Hjønnevåg" <arve@android.com>,
"Todd Kjos" <tkjos@android.com>,
"Martijn Coenen" <maco@android.com>,
"Joel Fernandes" <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>,
"Christian Brauner" <christian@brauner.io>,
"Suren Baghdasaryan" <surenb@google.com>,
"Ben Hutchings" <benh@debian.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] binder: Add missing module description
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2025 17:36:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aJoqFKYpWkDCiIJp@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250809073018.1720889-1-carnil@debian.org>
On Sat, Aug 09, 2025 at 09:30:18AM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> During build modpost issues a warning:
>
> # MODPOST Module.symvers
> ./scripts/mod/modpost -M -m -b -o Module.symvers -n -T modules.order vmlinux.o
> WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in drivers/android/binder_linux.o
>
> Fix this by adding the missing module description.
I'm not against having a description but binder is not tristate. Judging
from the 'binder_linux.o' this seems to be some OOT version? Otherwise,
I'm not sure you would be able to reproduce the warn.
>
> Reported-by: Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org>
> Link: https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/merge_requests/1587
> Suggested-by: Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org>
> Signed-off-by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
> ---
> drivers/android/binder.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/android/binder.c b/drivers/android/binder.c
> index 312b462e349d..0c2e38ff3a3b 100644
> --- a/drivers/android/binder.c
> +++ b/drivers/android/binder.c
> @@ -7090,3 +7090,4 @@ device_initcall(binder_init);
> #include "binder_trace.h"
>
> MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
> +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Android Binder IPC Driver");
> --
> 2.50.1
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-08-11 17:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-08-09 7:30 [PATCH] binder: Add missing module description Salvatore Bonaccorso
2025-08-11 9:20 ` Alice Ryhl
2025-08-11 17:36 ` Carlos Llamas [this message]
2025-08-11 18:01 ` Salvatore Bonaccorso
2025-08-11 18:44 ` Carlos Llamas
2025-08-17 9:42 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2025-08-17 13:52 ` Carlos Llamas
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