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authorMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>2019-08-10 18:53:02 +0300
committerMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>2019-08-21 15:03:58 +0300
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kbuild: do not descend to ./Kbuild when cleaning
'make clean' descends into ./Kbuild, but does not clean anything since everything is added to no-clean-files. There is no need to descend to ./Kbuild in the first place. We can drop the no-clean-files assignment. With this, there is no more user of no-clean-files. I will keep it for a while to see whether a new user will appear. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
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@@ -787,12 +787,6 @@ This will delete the directory debian in the toplevel directory, including all
subdirectories.
To exclude certain files from make clean, use the $(no-clean-files) variable.
-This is only a special case used in the top level Kbuild file:
-
- Example::
-
- #Kbuild
- no-clean-files := $(bounds-file) $(offsets-file)
Usually kbuild descends down in subdirectories due to "obj-* := dir/",
but in the architecture makefiles where the kbuild infrastructure