From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE1D5C433EF for ; Sat, 21 May 2022 03:17:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1354422AbiEUDRb (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 May 2022 23:17:31 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:37334 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S232435AbiEUDR1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 May 2022 23:17:27 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org (casper.infradead.org [IPv6:2001:8b0:10b:1236::1]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0289B15F6EB; Fri, 20 May 2022 20:17:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=casper.20170209; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type: In-Reply-To:References:Cc:To:From:Subject:MIME-Version:Date:Message-ID:Sender :Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=rCj+2wuo0EKtgYohW5UYvrq91l37l8Auyai5P939bcM=; b=eY916wTpVdbWeSyhgS6/LM/EVg wGG+DJlO2ME20eHlyKZ1rSFbo2UxJFW6ZOJkLo6JTl3S3pMkIFaZJobXGqWrMUJjRHaDNRZp1O72V fgB+i+zMtpth7F6hz9e0BDQOTfprhqTqiHnnm5maU7jXpLBifY5UNBwu61c9kqVFpeCaAy8Idzdwc 0Vm1pIhRF63+enTN5uvxg4TWItiGj9GhsEeC8HzEq/PEcTIk5gnVZLd7MrqyBHHAY5Wk4aLJuxCka UIhCprEjcqHp7MpKBnZYA4uCEbL744hKJJrQKoPIHQcOVwFeTL778qWcKUUNAU2l/9WcGZbdXrqRy TIlF1rSw==; Received: from [2601:1c0:6280:3f0::aa0b] by casper.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.94.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1nsFcI-00EKjX-IH; Sat, 21 May 2022 03:17:22 +0000 Message-ID: <6671de03-c09c-bfaf-e06c-e45af70d4354@infradead.org> Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 20:17:18 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.9.0 Subject: Re: kbuild problem: ERROR: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in drivers/iio/afe/iio-rescale.o Content-Language: en-US From: Randy Dunlap To: Linux Kbuild mailing list , Masahiro Yamada Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, Peter Rosin , "open list:KERNEL SELFTEST FRAMEWORK" , KUnit Development References: <18500f18-9cd5-a81c-4a55-14e999ed4496@infradead.org> <3ae306e0-c6c7-ed12-cacd-62b1c26dba3c@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <3ae306e0-c6c7-ed12-cacd-62b1c26dba3c@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 5/20/22 20:08, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > On 5/20/22 19:40, Randy Dunlap wrote: >> Hi, >> >> In March I reported that a randconfig build complained: >> >> ERROR: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in drivers/iio/afe/iio-rescale.o >> >> (https://lore.kernel.org/all/16509fb6-e40c-e31b-2c80-264c44b0beb9@infradead.org/) >> >> I am still seeing this problem so I tried to dig into it a bit. >> However, I don't see why get_next_modinfo() and friends don't find the >> MODULE_LICENSE() since it is in the iio-rescale.o file. >> >> (BTW, I see this build error on many different $ARCH [around 15 tested] >> and with 2 different versions of GCC.) >> >> Q1: Is modpost checking both vmlinux and iio-rescale.o for modinfo license >> strings? >> >> It looks like it is, because it appears (?) that modpost is looking at >> drivers/iio/test/iio-test-rescale.o (<<<<< a kunit test, which is builtin >> in my .config) and at drivers/iio/afe/iio-rescale.o (which is built as a >> loadable module). >> >> Is this confusing modpost? >> I renamed drivers/iio/afe/iio-rescale.c to afe-rescale.c and changed its >> Makefile entry accordingly and the MODULE_LICENSE error goes away. > > Oh well. This rename causes drivers/iio/test/iio-test-rescale.c to have > build errors, so that's not a solution, just some info... and that was due to not updating drivers/iio/test/Makefile. When that is done, the missing MODULE_LICENSE() is back in afe-rescale.o. > >> Is this a modpost error or is kunit messing things up? >> >> thanks for looking. > -- ~Randy