kbuild: soften modpost checks when doing cross builds
The module alias support in the kernel have a consistency
check where it is checked that the size of a structure
in the kernel and on the build host are the same.
For cross builds this check does not make sense so detect
when we do cross builds and silently skip the check in these
situations.
This fixes a build bug for a wireless driver when cross building
for arm.
Acked-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Tested-by: Gordon Farquharson <gordonfarquharson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.modpost b/scripts/Makefile.modpost
index cfc004e..2d20640 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.modpost
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.modpost
@@ -58,6 +58,9 @@
# Stop after building .o files if NOFINAL is set. Makes compile tests quicker
_modpost: $(if $(KBUILD_MODPOST_NOFINAL), $(modules:.ko:.o),$(modules))
+ifneq ($(KBUILD_BUILDHOST),$(ARCH))
+ cross_build := 1
+endif
# Step 2), invoke modpost
# Includes step 3,4
@@ -70,7 +73,8 @@
$(if $(CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH),,-S) \
$(if $(CONFIG_MARKERS),-K $(kernelmarkersfile)) \
$(if $(CONFIG_MARKERS),-M $(markersfile)) \
- $(if $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)$(KBUILD_MODPOST_WARN),-w)
+ $(if $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)$(KBUILD_MODPOST_WARN),-w) \
+ $(if $(cross_build),-c)
quiet_cmd_modpost = MODPOST $(words $(filter-out vmlinux FORCE, $^)) modules
cmd_modpost = $(modpost) -s