See comment.  Feels quite hackish.  Better ideas anyone?

Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
---
 Makefile.target | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Makefile.target b/Makefile.target
index 8ed1eba95b9c..c70325df5796 100644
--- a/Makefile.target
+++ b/Makefile.target
@@ -179,6 +179,13 @@ endif # CONFIG_SOFTMMU
 dummy := $(call unnest-vars,,obj-y)
 all-obj-y := $(obj-y)
 
+#
+# common-obj-m has some crap here, probably as side effect from
+# filling obj-y.  Clear it.  Fixes suspious dependency errors when
+# building devices as modules.
+#
+common-obj-m :=
+
 include $(SRC_PATH)/Makefile.objs
 dummy := $(call unnest-vars,.., \
                authz-obj-y \
-- 
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