diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.lib b/scripts/Makefile.lib
index 5d986d9adf1b7977684a1fa1825f5ff25c2816bc..2ce2e2194f26634a5bb476ea0f5a74e10e080721 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.lib
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.lib
@@ -93,9 +93,9 @@ obj-dirs	:= $(addprefix $(obj)/,$(obj-dirs))
 # already
 # $(modname_flags) #defines KBUILD_MODNAME as the name of the module it will 
 # end up in (or would, if it gets compiled in)
-# Note: It's possible that one object gets potentially linked into more
-#       than one module. In that case KBUILD_MODNAME will be set to foo_bar,
-#       where foo and bar are the name of the modules.
+# Note: Files that end up in two or more modules are compiled without the
+#       KBUILD_MODNAME definition. The reason is that any made-up name would
+#       differ in different configs.
 name-fix = $(subst $(comma),_,$(subst -,_,$1))
 basename_flags = -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR($(call name-fix,$(basetarget)))"
 modname_flags  = $(if $(filter 1,$(words $(modname))),\