Building with W=1 incorrectly emits the following warning: WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in vmlinux.o This check should apply only to modules. Fixes: 1fffe7a34c89 ("script: modpost: emit a warning when the description is missing") Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/mod/modpost.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c index 937294ff164f..f48d72d22dc2 100644 --- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c +++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c @@ -1647,10 +1647,11 @@ static void read_symbols(const char *modname) namespace = get_next_modinfo(&info, "import_ns", namespace); } + + if (extra_warn && !get_modinfo(&info, "description")) + warn("missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in %s\n", modname); } - if (extra_warn && !get_modinfo(&info, "description")) - warn("missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in %s\n", modname); for (sym = info.symtab_start; sym < info.symtab_stop; sym++) { symname = remove_dot(info.strtab + sym->st_name); -- 2.43.0