linux-kernel - Re: [tip:x86/setup] x86: use targets in the boot Makefile instead of CLEAN

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Date:	Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:38:54 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...hat.com, tglx@...utronix.de,
	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/setup] x86: use targets in the boot Makefile instead
 of CLEAN_FILES

Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> 
> When you are cleaning up...
> 
> archclean:
>         $(Q)rm -rf $(objtree)/arch/i386
>         $(Q)rm -rf $(objtree)/arch/x86_64
> 
> Do we need this hack now?
> I recall it was some backward soon-to-be-removed hack we made right after the x86 merge.
> 

Well, the hack hasn't been removed at least not in that particular 
branch... we still create bzImage symlinks.

It would be nice to fix that, I agree, and that would clean up the 
Makefile further.

	-hpa


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