hi folks,

In my hacking, Im finding this useful.  

it adds a version of KBUILD_MODNAME without the quotes

--- a/scripts/Makefile.lib
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.lib
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ target-stem = $(basename $(patsubst $(obj)/%,%,$@))
 # end up in (or would, if it gets compiled in)
 name-fix = $(call stringify,$(subst $(comma),_,$(subst -,_,$1)))
 basename_flags = -DKBUILD_BASENAME=$(call name-fix,$(basetarget))
-modname_flags  = -DKBUILD_MODNAME=$(call name-fix,$(modname))
+modname_flags  = -DKBUILD_MODNAME=$(call name-fix,$(modname)) -DKBUILD_MODSYM=$(modname)

Im suspicious however, 

KBUILD_MODNAME has the quotes for a reason;

probably robustness at some level.

Afterall, __stringify() could add the quotes for cases where it was needed.

If there was an __unstringify_token( ) I could remove this Makefile hack,

is such a construct possible ?