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Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:04:17 -0700
From: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
To: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@suse.de>,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>,
	Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
	Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>,
	Thomas =?iso-8859-1?Q?Wei=DFschuh?= <linux@weissschuh.net>,
	Tamir Duberstein <tamird@kernel.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: only clean objtool on mrproper
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On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 12:26:29PM +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> For packaging purposes I want to be able to grab the tool binaries
> without the .o files
> 
> Fixes: 68b4fe32d737 ("kbuild: Add objtool to top-level clean target")
> Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@suse.de>

Wouldn't resolve_btfids need the same treatment? Why is objtool special
here? Also, what's the use case? Running 'make clean' then copying what
is left? Josh, thoughts on this change?

> ---
>  Makefile | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index e944c6e71e81..e9b8811a02f5 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -1675,7 +1675,7 @@ vmlinuxclean:
>  	$(Q)$(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh clean
>  	$(Q)$(if $(ARCH_POSTLINK), $(MAKE) -f $(ARCH_POSTLINK) clean)
>  
> -clean: archclean vmlinuxclean resolve_btfids_clean objtool_clean
> +clean: archclean vmlinuxclean resolve_btfids_clean
>  
>  # mrproper - Delete all generated files, including .config
>  #
> @@ -1686,7 +1686,7 @@ PHONY += $(mrproper-dirs) mrproper
>  $(mrproper-dirs):
>  	$(Q)$(MAKE) $(clean)=$(patsubst _mrproper_%,%,$@)
>  
> -mrproper: clean $(mrproper-dirs)
> +mrproper: clean objtool_clean $(mrproper-dirs)
>  	$(call cmd,rmfiles)
>  	@find . $(RCS_FIND_IGNORE) \
>  		\( -name '*.rmeta' \) \
> -- 
> 2.51.0
>