Re: [PATCH] kernel/.gitignore: ignore temporary kheaders_data directory

[Nicolas Schier]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 05:15:25AM +0000, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> If the kheaders archive generation is interrupted then this directory
> may be left. Ignore it, it will be deleted by the next run of
> kernel/gen_kheaders.sh.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  kernel/.gitignore | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/.gitignore b/kernel/.gitignore
> index c6b299a6b786..57ab1d703763 100644
> --- a/kernel/.gitignore
> +++ b/kernel/.gitignore
> @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
>  # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
>  /config_data
>  /kheaders.md5
> +/kheaders_data.tar.xz.tmp/

What about removing the temporary directory on failure instead?  E.g.:

diff --git a/kernel/gen_kheaders.sh b/kernel/gen_kheaders.sh
index 473036b43c83..c656b72a3cdc 100755
--- a/kernel/gen_kheaders.sh
+++ b/kernel/gen_kheaders.sh
@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ echo "  GEN     $tarfile"
 rm -rf $cpio_dir
 mkdir $cpio_dir
 
+trap "rm -rf ${cpio_dir}" EXIT
+
 if [ "$building_out_of_srctree" ]; then
        (
                cd $srctree


Otherwise, I'd suggest to extent this .gitignore patch by also adding

   clean-files += kheaders_data.tar.xz.tmp/

to kernel/Makefile.

Kind regards,
Nicolas

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