diff --git a/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h b/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h
index 9a165a2..44eeef0 100644
--- a/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h
+++ b/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h
@@ -556,6 +556,11 @@
  * See documentation of "x86_match_cpu" for details.
  */
 
+/*
+ * MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE expects this struct to be called x86cpu_device_id.
+ * Although gcc seems to ignore this error, clang fails without this define.
+ */
+#define x86cpu_device_id x86_cpu_id
 struct x86_cpu_id {
 	__u16 vendor;
 	__u16 family;