From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
To: Rob Gill <rrobgill@protonmail.com>
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, balbi@kernel.org,
gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, johan@kernel.org, oneukum@suse.com,
stern@rowland.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] driver/usb MODULE_DESCRIPTION entries to usb modules
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2020 09:50:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200703075040.GC3453@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200703045811.28154-1-rrobgill@protonmail.com>
On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 04:58:55AM +0000, Rob Gill wrote:
> The user tool modinfo is used to get information on kernel modules, including a
> description where it is available.
>
> This patch adds a brief MODULE_DESCRIPTION to the following modules in driver/usb.
>
> isight_firmware
> mxuport
> u_ether
> uas
>
> Signed-off-by: Rob Gill <rrobgill@protonmail.com>
>
> ---
> Changes in V4
>
> Descriptions updated after review, thankyou.
>
> Patch format corrected
But you never replied to my questions: Why do you want to do this at
all; and why this arbitrary and incomplete set of drivers?
As I mentioned there are thousands of modules with no description (about
a hundred in USB, IIRC).
Johan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-03 7:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-03 4:58 [PATCH v4] driver/usb MODULE_DESCRIPTION entries to usb modules Rob Gill
2020-07-03 7:50 ` Johan Hovold [this message]
2020-07-03 20:14 ` Alan Stern
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