Re: [PATCH] arm64: clean vdso files

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 07:14:14PM +0000, Andrew Delgadillo wrote:
> commit a5b8ca97fbf8 ("arm64: do not descend to vdso directories twice")
> changes the cleaning behavior of arm64's vdso files, in that vdso.lds,
> vdso.so, and vdso.so.dbg are not removed upon a 'make clean/mrproper':
> 
> $ make defconfig ARCH=arm64
> $ make ARCH=arm64
> $ make mrproper ARCH=arm64
> $ git clean -nxdf
> Would remove arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vdso.lds
> Would remove arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vdso.so
> Would remove arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vdso.so.dbg
> 
> To remedy this, manually descend into arch/arm64/kernel/vdso upon
> cleaning.
> 
> After this commit:
> $ make defconfig ARCH=arm64
> $ make ARCH=arm64
> $ make mrproper ARCH=arm64
> $ git clean -nxdf
> <empty>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Delgadillo <adelg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/Makefile | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 

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This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
stable kernel tree.  Please read:
    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
for how to do this properly.

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