[PATCH] cpufreq: powerpc: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macros
Jeff Johnson
quic_jjohnson at quicinc.com
Tue Jul 23 01:23:33 AEST 2024
On 7/22/2024 12:13 AM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson at quicinc.com> writes:
>> With ARCH=powerpc, make allmodconfig && make W=1 C=1 reports:
>> WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in drivers/cpufreq/ppc-cbe-cpufreq.o
>> WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in drivers/cpufreq/powernv-cpufreq.o
>>
>> Add the missing invocation of the MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro to all
>> files which have a MODULE_LICENSE().
>>
>> This includes three additional files which, although they did not
>> produce a warning with the powerpc allmodconfig configuration, may
>> cause this warning with specific options enabled in the kernel
>> configuration.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson at quicinc.com>
>> ---
>> Corrections to these descriptions are welcomed. I'm not an expert in
>> this code so in most cases I've taken these descriptions directly from
>> code comments, Kconfig descriptions, or git logs. History has shown
>> that in some cases these are originally wrong due to cut-n-paste
>> errors, and in other cases the drivers have evolved such that the
>> original information is no longer accurate.
>> ---
>> drivers/cpufreq/maple-cpufreq.c | 1 +
>> drivers/cpufreq/pasemi-cpufreq.c | 1 +
>> drivers/cpufreq/pmac64-cpufreq.c | 1 +
>> drivers/cpufreq/powernv-cpufreq.c | 1 +
>> drivers/cpufreq/ppc_cbe_cpufreq.c | 1 +
>> 5 files changed, 5 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/maple-cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/maple-cpufreq.c
>> index f9306410a07f..19ca7f874d28 100644
>> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/maple-cpufreq.c
>> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/maple-cpufreq.c
>> @@ -238,4 +238,5 @@ static int __init maple_cpufreq_init(void)
>> module_init(maple_cpufreq_init);
>>
>>
>> +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("cpufreq driver for Maple 970FX Evaluation Board");
>
> Can you change this one to:
>
> "cpufreq driver for Maple 970FX/970MP boards");
>
> It looks for both those CPUs in probe.
>
>> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/powernv-cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/powernv-cpufreq.c
>> index fddbd1ea1635..e923f717e1d7 100644
>> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/powernv-cpufreq.c
>> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/powernv-cpufreq.c
>> @@ -1162,5 +1162,6 @@ static void __exit powernv_cpufreq_exit(void)
>> }
>> module_exit(powernv_cpufreq_exit);
>>
>> +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("cpufreq driver for the IBM POWER processors");
>
> This one's tricky, because it probes based on the device tree, though it
> is restricted to CONFIG_POWERNV. It also supports non-IBM CPUs in theory
> at least. Maybe something like:
>
> "cpufreq driver for IBM/OpenPOWER powernv systems");
>
> cheers
Sure, I'll send an update shortly.
/jeff
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