diff --git a/drivers/of/Kconfig b/drivers/of/Kconfig
index 18450437d5d5..517b9a49212d 100644
--- a/drivers/of/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/of/Kconfig
@@ -12,6 +12,13 @@ menuconfig OF
 
 if OF
 
+config DTC_SYMBOLS
+	bool "Enable dtc generation of symbols for overlays support"
+	depends on DTC
+	help
+	  Set DTC_FLAGS += -@
+	  Android OS must enable this option.
+
 config OF_UNITTEST
 	bool "Device Tree runtime unit tests"
 	depends on !SPARC
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.lib b/scripts/Makefile.lib
index c0d3b0ec8f70..6beeb3be1bc3 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.lib
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.lib
@@ -317,6 +317,11 @@ endif
 DTC ?= $(objtree)/scripts/dtc/dtc
 DTC_FLAGS += $(call dtc-option,-Wno-interrupt_provider)
 
+# Generation of symbols for Android
+ifeq ($(CONFIG_DTC_SYMBOLS),y)
+DTC_FLAGS += -@
+endif
+
 # Disable noisy checks by default
 ifeq ($(findstring 1,$(KBUILD_EXTRA_WARN)),)
 DTC_FLAGS += $(call dtc-option,-Wno-unit_address_vs_reg) \