Re: kbuild problem: ERROR: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in drivers/iio/afe/iio-rescale.o

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Sun May 29 2022 - 20:17:36 EST




On 5/29/22 14:20, Liam Beguin wrote:
> Hi Randy,
>
> On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 01:04:41PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 5/26/22 09:04, Liam Beguin wrote:
>>> Hi Randy,
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 08:36:34AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>>> Liam:
>>>>
>>>> Any comment on this?
>>>> Otherwise I'll just send a formal patch like this (below).
>>>
>>> Apologies for not answering earlier.
>>>
>>> I wanted to look more into Masahiro's comment and try to fix the
>>> Makefile, but that can be done after.
>>>
>>> IMO your patch improves the current Kconfig, so I'd recommend sending
>>> the patch. If it can wait a bit, I can look at the Makefile over the
>>> weekend.
>>>
>>
>> Liam,
>>
>> I'll wait until next week to see if you come up with anything.
>>
>
> The following patch fixes the issue while addressing Masahiro's comment.
> I also considered `select IIO_RESCALE`, but I'm not sure what's usually
> preferred.
>
> diff --git a/drivers/iio/test/Kconfig b/drivers/iio/test/Kconfig
> index 56ca0ad7e77a..4c66c3f18c34 100644
> --- a/drivers/iio/test/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/iio/test/Kconfig
> @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
> # Keep in alphabetical order
> config IIO_RESCALE_KUNIT_TEST
> bool "Test IIO rescale conversion functions"
> - depends on KUNIT=y && !IIO_RESCALE
> + depends on KUNIT=y && IIO_RESCALE=y
> default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
> help
> If you want to run tests on the iio-rescale code say Y here.
> diff --git a/drivers/iio/test/Makefile b/drivers/iio/test/Makefile
> index f15ae0a6394f..880360f8d02c 100644
> --- a/drivers/iio/test/Makefile
> +++ b/drivers/iio/test/Makefile
> @@ -4,6 +4,6 @@
> #
>
> # Keep in alphabetical order
> -obj-$(CONFIG_IIO_RESCALE_KUNIT_TEST) += iio-test-rescale.o ../afe/iio-rescale.o
> +obj-$(CONFIG_IIO_RESCALE_KUNIT_TEST) += iio-test-rescale.o
> obj-$(CONFIG_IIO_TEST_FORMAT) += iio-test-format.o
> CFLAGS_iio-test-format.o += $(DISABLE_STRUCTLEAK_PLUGIN)
>
> I'll send a patch as soon as you confirm this works for you too.

Looks good. Thanks.

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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~Randy