linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tools build feature: cleanup feature files on make clean

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Message-ID: <eb3ad60a-68be-f350-9597-b999edae5244@iogearbox.net>
Date:   Thu, 3 Sep 2020 21:20:35 +0200
From:   Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
To:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        bpf@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools build feature: cleanup feature files on make clean

Hi Arnaldo,

On 9/3/20 9:03 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 10:53:36AM +0200, Jesper Dangaard Brouer escreveu:
>> The system for "Auto-detecting system features" located under
>> tools/build/ are (currently) used by perf, libbpf and bpftool. It can
>> contain stalled feature detection files, which are not cleaned up by
>> libbpf and bpftool on make clean (side-note: perf tool is correct).
>>
>> Fix this by making the users invoke the make clean target.
>>
>> Some details about the changes. The libbpf Makefile already had a
>> clean-config target (which seems to be copy-pasted from perf), but this
>> target was not "connected" (a make dependency) to clean target. Choose
>> not to rename target as someone might be using it. Did change the output
>> from "CLEAN config" to "CLEAN feature-detect", to make it more clear
>> what happens.
> 
> Since this mostly touches BPF, should it go via the BPF tree?

Already applied roughly a week ago:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next.git/commit/?id=661b37cd437ef49cd28444f79b9b0c71ea76e8c8

Thanks,
Daniel