From: Peter Volkov 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 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- 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)) \ _