From d1f25e6658943569f2713dfde1b9d74e2f6c7243 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:17:42 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] kbuild: fix so modpost can now check any .o file

It is very convinient to say:
scripts/mod/modpost mm/built-in.o

to check if any section mismatch errors occured
in mm/ (as an example).
Fix it so this is possible again.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
---
 scripts/mod/modpost.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index 696d2a59e4b8f..46660a4f9e224 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -1299,7 +1299,8 @@ static void read_symbols(char *modname)
 		handle_modversions(mod, &info, sym, symname);
 		handle_moddevtable(mod, &info, sym, symname);
 	}
-	if (is_vmlinux(modname) && vmlinux_section_warnings) {
+	if (!is_vmlinux(modname) ||
+	     (is_vmlinux(modname) && vmlinux_section_warnings)) {
 		check_sec_ref(mod, modname, &info, init_section, init_section_ref_ok);
 		check_sec_ref(mod, modname, &info, exit_section, exit_section_ref_ok);
 	}
-- 
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