close(fd);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Important: The below generated source_foo.o and deps_foo.o variable
+ * assignments are parsed not only by make, but also by the rather simple
+ * parser in scripts/mod/sumversion.c.
+ */
 static void parse_dep_file(void *map, size_t len)
 {
        char *m = map;
                exit(1);
        }
        memcpy(s, m, p-m); s[p-m] = 0;
-       printf("deps_%s := \\\n", target);
        m = p+1;
 
        clear_config();
                    strrcmp(s, "arch/um/include/uml-config.h") &&
                    strrcmp(s, ".ver")) {
                        /*
-                        * Do not output the first dependency (the
-                        * source file), so that kbuild is not confused
-                        * if a .c file is rewritten into .S or vice
-                        * versa.
+                        * Do not list the source file as dependency, so that
+                        * kbuild is not confused if a .c file is rewritten
+                        * into .S or vice versa. Storing it in source_* is
+                        * needed for modpost to compute srcversions.
                         */
-                       if (!first)
+                       if (first) {
+                               printf("source_%s := %s\n\n", target, s);
+                               printf("deps_%s := \\\n", target);
+                       } else
                                printf("  %s \\\n", s);
                        do_config_file(s);
                }
 
                return 0;
 }
 
-/* We have dir/file.o.  Open dir/.file.o.cmd, look for deps_ line to
- * figure out source file. */
+/* We have dir/file.o.  Open dir/.file.o.cmd, look for source_ and deps_ line
+ * to figure out source files. */
 static int parse_source_files(const char *objfile, struct md4_ctx *md)
 {
        char *cmd, *file, *line, *dir;
        */
        while ((line = get_next_line(&pos, file, flen)) != NULL) {
                char* p = line;
+
+               if (strncmp(line, "source_", sizeof("source_")-1) == 0) {
+                       p = strrchr(line, ' ');
+                       if (!p) {
+                               warn("malformed line: %s\n", line);
+                               goto out_file;
+                       }
+                       p++;
+                       if (!parse_file(p, md)) {
+                               warn("could not open %s: %s\n",
+                                    p, strerror(errno));
+                               goto out_file;
+                       }
+                       continue;
+               }
                if (strncmp(line, "deps_", sizeof("deps_")-1) == 0) {
                        check_files = 1;
                        continue;