[PATCH] kbuild: remove tag files by distclean instead of mrproper

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Mon Jul 15 2019 - 10:03:45 EST


It takes somewhat long time to generate these tag files.
Keep such precious files until we run 'make distclean'.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

Makefile | 11 ++++++++++-
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 2c5d00ba537e..2d8e45f2a8df 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1380,11 +1380,15 @@ CLEAN_FILES += modules.builtin.modinfo
MRPROPER_DIRS += include/config include/generated \
arch/$(SRCARCH)/include/generated .tmp_objdiff
MRPROPER_FILES += .config .config.old .version \
- Module.symvers tags TAGS cscope* GPATH GTAGS GRTAGS GSYMS \
+ Module.symvers \
signing_key.pem signing_key.priv signing_key.x509 \
x509.genkey extra_certificates signing_key.x509.keyid \
signing_key.x509.signer vmlinux-gdb.py

+# Directories & files removed with 'make distclean'
+DISTCLEAN_DIRS +=
+DISTCLEAN_FILES += tags TAGS cscope* GPATH GTAGS GRTAGS GSYMS
+
# clean - Delete most, but leave enough to build external modules
#
clean: rm-dirs := $(CLEAN_DIRS)
@@ -1417,9 +1421,14 @@ mrproper: clean $(mrproper-dirs)

# distclean
#
+distclean: rm-dirs := $(wildcard $(DISTCLEAN_DIRS))
+distclean: rm-files := $(wildcard $(DISTCLEAN_FILES))
+
PHONY += distclean

distclean: mrproper
+ $(call cmd,rmdirs)
+ $(call cmd,rmfiles)
@find $(srctree) $(RCS_FIND_IGNORE) \
\( -name '*.orig' -o -name '*.rej' -o -name '*~' \
-o -name '*.bak' -o -name '#*#' -o -name '*%' \
--
2.17.1