make allmodconfig && make W=1 C=1 reports: WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in drivers/char/ttyprintk.o WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in drivers/char/lp.o WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in drivers/char/nvram.o Add the missing invocations of the MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro. Signed-off-by: Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- These are the ones left after addressing the ones in drivers/char that had explicit MAINTAINERS entries. --- drivers/char/lp.c | 1 + drivers/char/nvram.c | 1 + drivers/char/ttyprintk.c | 1 + 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/char/lp.c b/drivers/char/lp.c index 2f171d14b9b5..5faebe0365c5 100644 --- a/drivers/char/lp.c +++ b/drivers/char/lp.c @@ -1123,4 +1123,5 @@ module_init(lp_init_module); module_exit(lp_cleanup_module); MODULE_ALIAS_CHARDEV_MAJOR(LP_MAJOR); +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Generic parallel printer driver"); MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); diff --git a/drivers/char/nvram.c b/drivers/char/nvram.c index e9f694b36871..9eff426a9286 100644 --- a/drivers/char/nvram.c +++ b/drivers/char/nvram.c @@ -540,6 +540,7 @@ static void __exit nvram_module_exit(void) module_init(nvram_module_init); module_exit(nvram_module_exit); +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("CMOS/NV-RAM driver for Linux"); MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); MODULE_ALIAS_MISCDEV(NVRAM_MINOR); MODULE_ALIAS("devname:nvram"); diff --git a/drivers/char/ttyprintk.c b/drivers/char/ttyprintk.c index 4c806a189ee5..d7f841ab4323 100644 --- a/drivers/char/ttyprintk.c +++ b/drivers/char/ttyprintk.c @@ -228,4 +228,5 @@ static void __exit ttyprintk_exit(void) device_initcall(ttyprintk_init); module_exit(ttyprintk_exit); +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("TTY driver to output user messages via printk"); MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); --- base-commit: a693b9c95abd4947c2d06e05733de5d470ab6586 change-id: 20240603-md-char-misc-1b6ad02704a6