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

From: Romain Francoise
Date: Sat Nov 10 2012 - 07:59:20 EST


Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@xxxxxxx> 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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