Linux: No entries seen in /proc/modules on loading new kernel

Issue: No entries are seen in /proc/modules on loading a new kernel (typically built from scratch¹).
Solution: The solution is pretty simple. This is happening because the kernel has not loaded the module for which you would like to see the symbols. You can double confirm this by running:

$lsmod  > modulelist.txt
$cat modulelist.txt

If you do not see your module here, set the following while rebuilding your kernel:

make LSMOD="modulelist.txt" localmodconfig

Using this, reboot into your new kernel and your module should get loaded.

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