Re: [PATCH] ASoC: qcom: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro

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On Tue, Jun 04, 2024 at 05:46:14PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 04, 2024 at 12:56:09PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> > Is anyone getting any value from these MODULE_DESCRIPTION()s?  This all
> > just seems like a huge amount of noise and I'm having trouble thinking
> > of a use case.

> The missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() warnings are very annoying.  We
> recently missed a link error issue because the warning was drowned out
> in MODULE_DESCRIPTION() warnings.
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/202405182038.ncf1mL7Z-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/

Yeah, adding the warning seems premature without having first added the
descriptions and I'm not clear in what situation anyone would actually
care given how rare it is for someone to manually interact with module
loading.  The number of cases where anyone would not just look at the
source seems vanishingly small.

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