From: Mieczyslaw Nalewaj Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2025 20:18:18 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] kbuild: extract modules.builtin.modinfo from vmlinux.o Partially reverse https://web.git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?h=linux-6.18.y&id=39cfd5b12160be4f57df1c3ba60139741c827616 to prevent generation of empty modules.builtin.modinfo and modules.builtin files that cause modules compilation errors. If an out-of-tree package or any kernel-install rule ran modprobe xyz while the build was still in progress, and xyz had been configured =y, a clean tree would already have xyz listed in modules.builtin; with the empty file produced by the buggy rule it was missing, so modprobe emitted "module xyz not found" even though the code was sitting inside the freshly built vmlinux. Signed-off-by: Mieczyslaw Nalewaj --- scripts/Makefile.vmlinux | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux +++ b/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ quiet_cmd_modules_builtin_modinfo = GEN OBJCOPYFLAGS_modules.builtin.modinfo := -j .modinfo -O binary targets += modules.builtin.modinfo -modules.builtin.modinfo: vmlinux.unstripped FORCE +modules.builtin.modinfo: vmlinux.o FORCE $(call if_changed,modules_builtin_modinfo) # modules.builtin