diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst
index 774a998dcf370e8395d988aca75de224562ae16b..69fa48ee93d6ec5de3988e3a7450dda4652860c7 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst
@@ -492,11 +492,8 @@ build.
 	to the symbols from the kernel to check if all external symbols
 	are defined. This is done in the MODPOST step. modpost obtains
 	the symbols by reading Module.symvers from the kernel source
-	tree. If a Module.symvers file is present in the directory
-	where the external module is being built, this file will be
-	read too. During the MODPOST step, a new Module.symvers file
-	will be written containing all exported symbols that were not
-	defined in the kernel.
+	tree. During the MODPOST step, a new Module.symvers file will be
+	written containing all exported symbols from that external module.
 
 6.3 Symbols From Another External Module
 ----------------------------------------
@@ -504,7 +501,7 @@ build.
 	Sometimes, an external module uses exported symbols from
 	another external module. Kbuild needs to have full knowledge of
 	all symbols to avoid spitting out warnings about undefined
-	symbols. Three solutions exist for this situation.
+	symbols. Two solutions exist for this situation.
 
 	NOTE: The method with a top-level kbuild file is recommended
 	but may be impractical in certain situations.
@@ -544,8 +541,8 @@ build.
 		all symbols defined and not part of the kernel.
 
 	Use "make" variable KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS
-		If it is impractical to copy Module.symvers from
-		another module, you can assign a space separated list
+		If it is impractical to add a top-level kbuild file,
+		you can assign a space separated list
 		of files to KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS in your build file.
 		These files will be loaded by modpost during the
 		initialization of its symbol tables.
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.modpost b/scripts/Makefile.modpost
index 13842693c143f2a0bb5e744e9e78ce31df0b14de..20359c7887b3b0baad6389923e5043b53d368097 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.modpost
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.modpost
@@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ MODPOST = scripts/mod/modpost						\
 	$(if $(CONFIG_MODVERSIONS),-m)					\
 	$(if $(CONFIG_MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL),-a)			\
 	$(if $(KBUILD_EXTMOD),-i,-o) $(kernelsymfile)			\
-	$(if $(KBUILD_EXTMOD),-I $(modulesymfile))			\
 	$(if $(KBUILD_EXTMOD),$(addprefix -e ,$(KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS)))	\
 	$(if $(KBUILD_EXTMOD),-o $(modulesymfile))			\
 	$(if $(CONFIG_SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY),,-E)			\
diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index d2a30a7b3f07cc884889555948054acb911e1fc7..37fa1c65ee4de2f16b2be3a102fd3fe9d03fd00f 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -2561,7 +2561,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 {
 	struct module *mod;
 	struct buffer buf = { };
-	char *kernel_read = NULL, *module_read = NULL;
+	char *kernel_read = NULL;
 	char *dump_write = NULL, *files_source = NULL;
 	int opt;
 	int err;
@@ -2569,13 +2569,10 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 	struct ext_sym_list *extsym_iter;
 	struct ext_sym_list *extsym_start = NULL;
 
-	while ((opt = getopt(argc, argv, "i:I:e:mnsT:o:awEd")) != -1) {
+	while ((opt = getopt(argc, argv, "i:e:mnsT:o:awEd")) != -1) {
 		switch (opt) {
 		case 'i':
 			kernel_read = optarg;
-			break;
-		case 'I':
-			module_read = optarg;
 			external_module = 1;
 			break;
 		case 'e':
@@ -2620,8 +2617,6 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 
 	if (kernel_read)
 		read_dump(kernel_read, 1);
-	if (module_read)
-		read_dump(module_read, 0);
 	while (extsym_start) {
 		read_dump(extsym_start->file, 0);
 		extsym_iter = extsym_start->next;