linux-kernel - Re: [Kbuild] How to clean a particular directory ?

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Message-ID: <20080131084851.GB14160@linux-sh.org>
Date:	Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:48:51 +0900
From:	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>
To:	Francis Moreau <francis.moro@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Kbuild] How to clean a particular directory ?

On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 09:38:10AM +0100, Francis Moreau wrote:
> I'd like to clean a particular directory in the kernel tree.
> 
> I tried several things such as:
> 
> $ make drivers/char clean
> $ make -f scripts/Makefile.clean obj=drivers/char
> 
> But it doesn't work.
> 
> Could anybody give me  a hint ?

make SUBDIRS=drivers/char clean

should do the trick. Kbuild might have a magic incantation for it these
days, but that's the way it used to work, and still seems to.
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