[PATCH] kbuild: sort modules for modpost and modinst

Process modules in sorted order during modpost and modules install.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

scripts/Makefile.modinst

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ include scripts/Makefile.lib
 
 #
 
-__modules := $(shell head -q -n1 /dev/null $(wildcard $(MODVERDIR)/*.mod))
+__modules := $(sort $(shell head -q -n1 /dev/null $(wildcard $(MODVERDIR)/*.mod)))
 modules := $(patsubst %.o,%.ko,$(wildcard $(__modules:.ko=.o)))
 
 .PHONY: $(modules)

scripts/Makefile.modpost

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ include scripts/Makefile.lib
 symverfile := $(objtree)/Module.symvers
 
 # Step 1), find all modules listed in $(MODVERDIR)/
-__modules := $(shell head -q -n1 /dev/null $(wildcard $(MODVERDIR)/*.mod))
+__modules := $(sort $(shell head -q -n1 /dev/null $(wildcard $(MODVERDIR)/*.mod)))
 modules   := $(patsubst %.o,%.ko, $(wildcard $(__modules:.ko=.o)))
 
 _modpost: $(modules)