kbuild: improved modversioning support for external modules

With following patch a second option is enabled to obtain
symbol information from a second external module when a
external module is build.
The recommended approach is to use a common kbuild file but
that may be impractical in certain cases.
With this patch one can copy over a Module.symvers from one
external module to make symbols (and symbol versions) available
for another external module.

Updated documentation in Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.modpost b/scripts/Makefile.modpost
index bf96a61d4b86..563e3c5bd8dd 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.modpost
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.modpost
@@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ include .config
 include scripts/Kbuild.include
 include scripts/Makefile.lib
 
-symverfile := $(objtree)/Module.symvers
+kernelsymfile := $(objtree)/Module.symvers
+modulesymfile := $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/Modules.symvers
 
 # Step 1), find all modules listed in $(MODVERDIR)/
 __modules := $(sort $(shell grep -h '\.ko' /dev/null $(wildcard $(MODVERDIR)/*.mod)))
@@ -54,7 +55,9 @@ quiet_cmd_modpost = MODPOST
       cmd_modpost = scripts/mod/modpost            \
         $(if $(CONFIG_MODVERSIONS),-m)             \
         $(if $(CONFIG_MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL),-a,)  \
-        $(if $(KBUILD_EXTMOD),-i,-o) $(symverfile) \
+        $(if $(KBUILD_EXTMOD),-i,-o) $(kernelsymfile) \
+        $(if $(KBUILD_EXTMOD),-I $(modulesymfile)) \
+        $(if $(KBUILD_EXTMOD),-o $(modulesymfile)) \
         $(filter-out FORCE,$^)
 
 .PHONY: __modpost