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* [PATCH] kbuild: Unbreak cleaning external module build directory
@ 2012-11-18 15:01 Bart Van Assche
  2012-12-09 15:07 ` Michal Marek
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Bart Van Assche @ 2012-11-18 15:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Sam Ravnborg
  Cc: Arnaud Lacombe, Nick Bowler, Richard Weinberger, Michal Marek,
	linux-kernel

Avoid that "$(MAKE) -C $(KDIR) M=$(PWD) clean" triggers the following
error message when invoked from inside the Makefile of an external
kernel module:

rm: cannot remove 'System.map': Permission denied
make[1]: *** [clean] Error 1

Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
Cc: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
---
 Makefile |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 9f6ca12..46b9be5 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1252,7 +1252,7 @@ scripts: ;
 endif # KBUILD_EXTMOD
 
 clean: $(clean-dirs)
-	$(Q)$(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh clean
+	$(Q)$(if $(KBUILD_EXTMOD),,$(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh clean)
 	$(call cmd,rmdirs)
 	$(call cmd,rmfiles)
 	@find $(if $(KBUILD_EXTMOD), $(KBUILD_EXTMOD), .) $(RCS_FIND_IGNORE) \
-- 
1.7.10.4


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* Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Unbreak cleaning external module build directory
  2012-11-18 15:01 [PATCH] kbuild: Unbreak cleaning external module build directory Bart Van Assche
@ 2012-12-09 15:07 ` Michal Marek
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Michal Marek @ 2012-12-09 15:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Bart Van Assche
  Cc: Sam Ravnborg, Arnaud Lacombe, Nick Bowler, Richard Weinberger,
	linux-kernel

On 18.11.2012 16:01, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> Avoid that "$(MAKE) -C $(KDIR) M=$(PWD) clean" triggers the following
> error message when invoked from inside the Makefile of an external
> kernel module:
> 
> rm: cannot remove 'System.map': Permission denied
> make[1]: *** [clean] Error 1

I just applied an earlier patch to fix this:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1663011/

Michal


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