linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Do not remove vmlinux when cleaning external module

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Date:	Sat, 10 Nov 2012 13:59:21 +0100
From:	Romain Francoise <romain@...bokech.com>
To:	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>
Cc:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Do not remove vmlinux when cleaning external module

Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com> writes:

> Since commit 1f2bfbd00e466ff3489b2ca5cc75b1cccd14c123 "kbuild:
> link of vmlinux moved to a script" make clean with M=<dir>
> argument (so cleaning external module) removes vmlinux,
> System.map and couple of other files from the *main* kernel
> build directory! This not what was happening before and almost
> certainly not what one would expect.

> This patch moves makes the clean target of the script called
> only when !KBUILD_EXTMOD.

Thanks, I have the same problem and this patch fixes it.

Michal, can you pick it up? It's not yet in kbuild.git, it seems.
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