Re: [PATCH] kbuild: clean compressed initramfs image

[Nicholas Piggin]

Greg Thelen's on July 22, 2019 4:32 pm:
> Since commit 9e3596b0c653 ("kbuild: initramfs cleanup, set target from
> Kconfig") "make clean" leaves behind compressed initramfs images.
> Example:
>   $ make defconfig
>   $ sed -i 's|CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE=""|CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE="/tmp/ir.cpio"|' .config
>   $ make olddefconfig
>   $ make -s
>   $ make -s clean
>   $ git clean -ndxf | grep initramfs
>   Would remove usr/initramfs_data.cpio.gz
> 
> clean rules do not have CONFIG_* context so they do not know which
> compression format was used.  Thus they don't know which files to
> delete.
> 
> Tell clean to delete all possible compression formats.
> 
> Once patched usr/initramfs_data.cpio.gz and friends are deleted by
> "make clean".
> 
> Fixes: 9e3596b0c653 ("kbuild: initramfs cleanup, set target from Kconfig")
> Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for that, looks good to me.

Thanks,
Nick