diff --git a/drivers/Makefile b/drivers/Makefile
index 184ee685..b3ed00a8 100644
--- a/drivers/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/Makefile
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ LINUXINCLUDE += -I$(srctree.nvidia-oot)/include
 obj-m += hwmon/
 obj-m += i2c/busses/
 obj-m += mfd/
+obj-m += misc/
 obj-m += pinctrl/
 obj-m += platform/tegra/
 obj-m += pwm/
diff --git a/drivers/misc/Makefile b/drivers/misc/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..05b0b917
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/misc/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+# Copyright (c) 2022, NVIDIA CORPORATION.  All rights reserved.
+
+obj-m += nvsciipc/
diff --git a/drivers/misc/nvsciipc/Makefile b/drivers/misc/nvsciipc/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8b2eae28
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/misc/nvsciipc/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+# Copyright (c) 2022, NVIDIA CORPORATION.  All rights reserved.
+
+# NOTE: Do not change or add anything in this makefile.
+# The source code and makefile rules are copied from the
+# kernel/nvidia/drivers/misc/nvsciipc. This file is just place-
+# holder for empty makefile to avoid any build issue when copy
+# is not done from command line and building the tree independent
+# of source copy.
+
diff --git a/kernel-src-files-copy-list.txt b/kernel-src-files-copy-list.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3559d327
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kernel-src-files-copy-list.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#files/directory for the nvsciipc module
+copy_dir nvidia/drivers/misc/nvsciipc drivers/misc/nvsciipc
+copy_file nvidia/include/linux/nvscierror.h include/linux/nvscierror.h
+copy_file nvidia/include/linux/nvsciipc_interface.h include/linux/nvsciipc_interface.h
+copy_file nvidia/include/uapi/linux/nvsciipc_ioctl.h include/uapi/linux/nvsciipc_ioctl.h