diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 6b73d1eed1ea0c9aea3af6270fb504d2c836cceb..b1196abcd8e8302fd2cb13b164834d8dc53fc8f1 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1009,7 +1009,8 @@ include/generated/utsrelease.h: include/config/kernel.release FORCE
 
 PHONY += headerdep
 headerdep:
-	$(Q)find include/ -name '*.h' | xargs --max-args 1 scripts/headerdep.pl
+	$(Q)find $(srctree)/include/ -name '*.h' | xargs --max-args 1 \
+	$(srctree)/scripts/headerdep.pl -I$(srctree)/include
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -1417,13 +1418,15 @@ tags TAGS cscope gtags: FORCE
 # Scripts to check various things for consistency
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
+PHONY += includecheck versioncheck coccicheck namespacecheck export_report
+
 includecheck:
-	find * $(RCS_FIND_IGNORE) \
+	find $(srctree)/* $(RCS_FIND_IGNORE) \
 		-name '*.[hcS]' -type f -print | sort \
 		| xargs $(PERL) -w $(srctree)/scripts/checkincludes.pl
 
 versioncheck:
-	find * $(RCS_FIND_IGNORE) \
+	find $(srctree)/* $(RCS_FIND_IGNORE) \
 		-name '*.[hcS]' -type f -print | sort \
 		| xargs $(PERL) -w $(srctree)/scripts/checkversion.pl
 
diff --git a/scripts/checkversion.pl b/scripts/checkversion.pl
index b444e89a0095dc16d207fb23a7600a148c67834b..5e490a8ceca5582e3003890cf34a21c33447969f 100755
--- a/scripts/checkversion.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkversion.pl
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ $| = 1;
 my $debugging;
 
 foreach my $file (@ARGV) {
+    next if $file =~ "include/linux/version\.h";
     # Open this file.
     open( my $f, '<', $file )
       or die "Can't open $file: $!\n";
diff --git a/scripts/export_report.pl b/scripts/export_report.pl
index 04dce7c15f8328c71f3ce5f6bff4ef9ef0882eac..8f79b701de876a807ae76abd89ad077d65ef3390 100644
--- a/scripts/export_report.pl
+++ b/scripts/export_report.pl
@@ -25,11 +25,12 @@ sub alphabetically {
 sub print_depends_on {
 	my ($href) = @_;
 	print "\n";
-	while (my ($mod, $list) = each %$href) {
+	for my $mod (sort keys %$href) {
+		my $list = $href->{$mod};
 		print "\t$mod:\n";
 		foreach my $sym (sort numerically @{$list}) {
 			my ($symbol, $no) = split /\s+/, $sym;
-			printf("\t\t%-25s\t%-25d\n", $symbol, $no);
+			printf("\t\t%-25s\n", $symbol);
 		}
 		print "\n";
 	}
@@ -49,8 +50,14 @@ sub usage {
 }
 
 sub collectcfiles {
-    my @file
-	= `cat .tmp_versions/*.mod | grep '.*\.ko\$' | sed s/\.ko$/.mod.c/`;
+    my @file;
+    while (<.tmp_versions/*.mod>) {
+	open my $fh, '<', $_ or die "cannot open $_: $!\n";
+	push (@file,
+	      grep s/\.ko/.mod.c/,	# change the suffix
+	      grep m/.+\.ko/,		# find the .ko path
+	      <$fh>);			# lines in opened file
+    }
     chomp @file;
     return @file;
 }
@@ -95,6 +102,8 @@ close($module_symvers);
 #
 # collect the usage count of each symbol.
 #
+my $modversion_warnings = 0;
+
 foreach my $thismod (@allcfiles) {
 	my $module;
 
@@ -125,7 +134,8 @@ foreach my $thismod (@allcfiles) {
 		}
 	}
 	if ($state != 2) {
-		print "WARNING:$thismod is not built with CONFIG_MODVERSION enabled\n";
+		warn "WARNING:$thismod is not built with CONFIG_MODVERSIONS enabled\n";
+		$modversion_warnings++;
 	}
 	close($module);
 }
@@ -159,8 +169,12 @@ printf("SECTION 2:\n\tThis section reports export-symbol-usage of in-kernel
 modules. Each module lists the modules, and the symbols from that module that
 it uses.  Each listed symbol reports the number of modules using it\n");
 
+print "\nNOTE: Got $modversion_warnings CONFIG_MODVERSIONS warnings\n\n"
+    if $modversion_warnings;
+
 print "~"x80 , "\n";
-while (my ($thismod, $list) = each %MODULE) {
+for my $thismod (sort keys %MODULE) {
+	my $list = $MODULE{$thismod};
 	my %depends;
 	$thismod =~ s/\.mod\.c/.ko/;
 	print "\t\t\t$thismod\n";
diff --git a/scripts/patch-kernel b/scripts/patch-kernel
index 46a59cae3a0a6d52840483ab10212ef93fb6f3c3..20fb25c2338299f33a8954d6b046ce17f7b466fe 100755
--- a/scripts/patch-kernel
+++ b/scripts/patch-kernel
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ while :				# incrementing SUBLEVEL (s in v.p.s)
 do
     CURRENTFULLVERSION="$VERSION.$PATCHLEVEL.$SUBLEVEL"
     EXTRAVER=
-    if [ $STOPFULLVERSION = $CURRENTFULLVERSION ]; then
+    if [ x$STOPFULLVERSION = x$CURRENTFULLVERSION ]; then
         echo "Stopping at $CURRENTFULLVERSION base as requested."
         break
     fi