The -w option is meaningless for the first pass of modpost (vmlinux.o). We know there are unresolved symbols in vmlinux.o, hence we skip check_exports() and other checks when mod->is_vmlinux is set. See the following part in the for-loop. if (mod->is_vmlinux || mod->from_dump) continue; Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/Makefile.modpost | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.modpost b/scripts/Makefile.modpost index 3f5b09a09aef..b3e08fb1fd56 100644 --- a/scripts/Makefile.modpost +++ b/scripts/Makefile.modpost @@ -32,8 +32,6 @@ # Step 4 is solely used to allow module versioning in external modules, # where the CRC of each module is retrieved from the Module.symvers file. -# KBUILD_MODPOST_WARN can be set to avoid error out in case of undefined -# symbols in the final module linking stage # KBUILD_MODPOST_NOFINAL can be set to skip the final link of modules. # This is solely useful to speed up test compiles @@ -50,7 +48,6 @@ MODPOST = scripts/mod/modpost \ $(if $(CONFIG_MODVERSIONS),-m) \ $(if $(CONFIG_MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL),-a) \ $(if $(CONFIG_SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY),,-E) \ - $(if $(KBUILD_MODPOST_WARN),-w) \ -o $@ ifdef MODPOST_VMLINUX @@ -136,6 +133,11 @@ endif modules := $(sort $(shell cat $(MODORDER))) +# KBUILD_MODPOST_WARN can be set to avoid error out in case of undefined symbols +ifneq ($(KBUILD_MODPOST_WARN),) +MODPOST += -w +endif + # Read out modules.order to pass in modpost. # Otherwise, allmodconfig would fail with "Argument list too long". quiet_cmd_modpost = MODPOST $@ -- 2.27.0