Re: [PATCH 0/9] ALSA: Use *-y instead of *-objs in Makefile

[Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com>]

On 5/8/24 04:02, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> On Tue, 07 May 2024 22:53:46 +0200,
> Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, May 07, 2024 at 07:02:35PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>>> On Tue, May 07, 2024 at 03:55:00PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> this is a series of trivial cleanup patches for Makefile in sound/*
>>>> (modulo ASoC -- which will be submitted later in a separate series).
>>>>
>>>> As Andy suggested in a patch review, *-objs suffix in Makefile is
>>>> basically a mis-use nowadays for kernel driver modules.  They should
>>>> be replaced with *-y suffix instead.  This is a result of systematic
>>>> conversions, separated per directory.
>>>
>>> I briefly looked at this and since it's a mechanical conversion I don't see
>>> any issues, so
>>>
>>> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
>>
>> Btw, make W=1 nowadays enables modpost checks, which complain about absence of
>> MODULE_DESCRIPTION().
>>
>> Example:
>> WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in sound/core/snd-pcm-dmaengine.o
>> WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in sound/soc/sof/intel/snd-sof-intel-atom.o
>> WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in sound/soc/sof/intel/snd-sof-acpi-intel-byt.o
>> WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in sound/soc/sof/intel/snd-sof-acpi-intel-bdw.o
>> WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in sound/soc/sof/snd-sof-utils.o
>> WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in sound/soc/sof/snd-sof-acpi.o
>> WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in sound/ac97_bus.o
>>
>> I'm not sure what the case now for ALSA, just FYI.
> 
> Indeed there are lots of code that miss MODULE_DESCRIPTION().
...
> There are too many stuff in sound/soc/sof/* and I leave them to SOF
> people (Cc'ed), while I'm going to submit the fix patches for the
> rest.

ok, I'll take care of it. I wasn't aware this was a requirement.