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

[Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 12:49:02PM -0700, Jeff Johnson 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@oss.qualcomm.com>
> ---
> 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.
> 
> Note: I'm not really sure if *all* of these have been fixed. After I

FWIW, I ran

for f in $(find . -name '*.c'); do grep -q MODULE_LICENSE $f && (grep -q MODULE_DESCRIPTION $f || echo $f); done

That reports a large number of files (111, to be exact) with MODULE_LICENSE
but not MODULE_DESCRIPTION. I cross-checked a few, and found that many can
be built as module. The fall-out from this patch might be interesting.

Guenter