From: Peter Volkov <pva@xxxxxxxxxx> Taken from http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11567 If you even define KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS in Makefile it will not be expanded into command line argument for modpost. Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/Makefile.modpost | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN scripts/Makefile.modpost~kbuild-fix-kbuild_extra_symbols scripts/Makefile.modpost --- a/scripts/Makefile.modpost~kbuild-fix-kbuild_extra_symbols +++ a/scripts/Makefile.modpost @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ modpost = scripts/mod/modpost $(if $(CONFIG_MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL),-a,) \ $(if $(KBUILD_EXTMOD),-i,-o) $(kernelsymfile) \ $(if $(KBUILD_EXTMOD),-I $(modulesymfile)) \ - $(if $(KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS), $(patsubst %, -e %,$(EXTRA_SYMBOLS))) \ + $(if $(KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS), $(patsubst %, -e %,$(KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS))) \ $(if $(KBUILD_EXTMOD),-o $(modulesymfile)) \ $(if $(CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH),,-S) \ $(if $(CONFIG_MARKERS),-K $(kernelmarkersfile)) \ _ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html