Re: [PATCH RFC 5/6] selftests: add EXTRA_CLEAN for clean target

From: Michael Ellerman
Date: Fri Nov 18 2016 - 06:01:11 EST


bamvor.zhangjian@xxxxxxxxxx writes:

> From: Bamvor Jian Zhang <bamvor.zhangjian@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Some testcases need the clean extra data after running. This patch
> introduce the "EXTRA_CLEAN" variable to address this requirement.

The idea here is fine I think. But this will need reworking if you
follow my suggestions for patch 1.

> After KOUTPUT_BUILD is enabled in later patch, it will be easy to
> decide to if we need do the cleanup in the KOUTPUT_BUILD path, if the
> testcase ran immediately after compiled.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bamvor Jian Zhang <bamvor.zhangjian@xxxxxxxxxx>

All of these:

> tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/benchmarks/Makefile | 5 ++---
> tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/copyloops/Makefile | 3 +--
> tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/dscr/Makefile | 4 ++--
> tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/math/Makefile | 5 ++---
> tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/primitives/Makefile | 5 ++---
> tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/stringloops/Makefile | 5 ++---
> tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/syscalls/Makefile | 5 ++---
> tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/Makefile | 5 ++---

are just cleaning *.o, and I'm pretty sure none of them need to. So for
those you can just drop the custom clean rule.

This one does need a custom rule:

> .../testing/selftests/powerpc/switch_endian/Makefile | 5 ++---


cheers