8 files changed, 17 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.modpost b/scripts/Makefile.modpost
index a098a0454dc8..17092d6c7db3 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.modpost
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.modpost
@@ -43,7 +43,13 @@ _modpost: __modpost
 include include/config/auto.conf
 include scripts/Kbuild.include
 
+# When building external modules load the Kbuild file to retreive EXTRA_SYMBOLS info
 ifneq ($(KBUILD_EXTMOD),)
+
+# set src + obj - they may be used when building the .mod.c file
+obj := $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)
+src := $(obj)
+
 # Include the module's Makefile to find KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS
 include $(if $(wildcard $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/Kbuild), \
              $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/Kbuild, $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/Makefile)
diff --git a/scripts/decodecode b/scripts/decodecode
index 235d3938529d..235d3938529d 100644..100755
--- a/scripts/decodecode
+++ b/scripts/decodecode
diff --git a/scripts/kallsyms.c b/scripts/kallsyms.c
index 5d20a2e24cd1..ad2434b26970 100644
--- a/scripts/kallsyms.c
+++ b/scripts/kallsyms.c
@@ -108,6 +108,9 @@ static int read_symbol(FILE *in, struct sym_entry *s)
         /* exclude also MIPS ELF local symbols ($L123 instead of .L123) */
         else if (str[0] == '$')
                 return -1;
+        /* exclude debugging symbols */
+        else if (stype == 'N')
+                return -1;
 
         /* include the type field in the symbol name, so that it gets
          * compressed together */
diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/util.c b/scripts/kconfig/util.c
index f8e73c039dc8..3cc9f9369036 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/util.c
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/util.c
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ struct gstr str_new(void)
 {
         struct gstr gs;
         gs.s = malloc(sizeof(char) * 64);
-        gs.len = 16;
+        gs.len = 64;
         strcpy(gs.s, "\0");
         return gs;
 }
diff --git a/scripts/kernel-doc b/scripts/kernel-doc
index 83cee18a02e9..88e3934a8b8c 100755
--- a/scripts/kernel-doc
+++ b/scripts/kernel-doc
@@ -1556,7 +1556,9 @@ sub create_parameterlist($$$) {
                     push_parameter($2, "$type $1", $file);
                 }
                 elsif ($param =~ m/(.*?):(\d+)/) {
-                    push_parameter($1, "$type:$2", $file)
+                    if ($type ne "") { # skip unnamed bit-fields
+                        push_parameter($1, "$type:$2", $file)
+                    }
                 }
                 else {
                     push_parameter($param, $type, $file);
diff --git a/scripts/mksysmap b/scripts/mksysmap
index 4390fab9f5bd..6e133a0bae7a 100644
--- a/scripts/mksysmap
+++ b/scripts/mksysmap
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
 # For System.map filter away:
 #   a - local absolute symbols
 #   U - undefined global symbols
+#   N - debugging symbols
 #   w - local weak symbols
 
 # readprofile starts reading symbols when _stext is found, and
@@ -40,5 +41,5 @@
 # so we just ignore them to let readprofile continue to work.
 # (At least sparc64 has __crc_ in the middle).
 
-$NM -n $1 | grep -v '\( [aUw] \)\|\(__crc_\)\|\( \$[adt]\)' > $2
+$NM -n $1 | grep -v '\( [aNUw] \)\|\(__crc_\)\|\( \$[adt]\)' > $2
 
diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index 757294b4f322..508c5895c680 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -721,7 +721,7 @@ static int check_section(const char *modname, const char *sec)
                 /* consume all digits */
                 while (*e && e != sec && isdigit(*e))
                         e--;
-                if (*e == '.') {
+                if (*e == '.' && !strstr(sec, ".linkonce")) {
                         warn("%s (%s): unexpected section name.\n"
                              "The (.[number]+) following section name are "
                              "ld generated and not expected.\n"
diff --git a/scripts/ver_linux b/scripts/ver_linux
index ab69ecefedbd..7ac0e309be09 100755
--- a/scripts/ver_linux
+++ b/scripts/ver_linux
@@ -12,12 +12,9 @@ echo ' '
 uname -a
 echo ' '
 
-gcc --version 2>&1| head -n 1 | grep -v gcc | awk \
+gcc -dumpversion 2>&1| awk \
 'NR==1{print "Gnu C                 ", $1}'
 
-gcc --version 2>&1| grep gcc | awk \
-'NR==1{print "Gnu C                 ", $3}'
-
 make --version 2>&1 | awk -F, '{print $1}' | awk \
       '/GNU Make/{print "Gnu make              ",$NF}'