Re: [PATCH] tools build feature: cleanup feature files on make clean

[Daniel Borkmann]

Hi Arnaldo,

On 9/3/20 9:03 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 10:53:36AM +0200, Jesper Dangaard Brouer escreveu:
> > The system for "Auto-detecting system features" located under
> > tools/build/ are (currently) used by perf, libbpf and bpftool. It can
> > contain stalled feature detection files, which are not cleaned up by
> > libbpf and bpftool on make clean (side-note: perf tool is correct).
> >
> > Fix this by making the users invoke the make clean target.
> >
> > Some details about the changes. The libbpf Makefile already had a
> > clean-config target (which seems to be copy-pasted from perf), but this
> > target was not "connected" (a make dependency) to clean target. Choose
> > not to rename target as someone might be using it. Did change the output
> > from "CLEAN config" to "CLEAN feature-detect", to make it more clear
> > what happens.
>
> Since this mostly touches BPF, should it go via the BPF tree?

Already applied roughly a week ago:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next.git/commit/?id=661b37cd437ef49cd28444f79b9b0c71ea76e8c8

Thanks,
Daniel