'make clean' descends into ./Kbuild, but does not clean anything since everything is added to no-clean-files. There is no need to descend to ./Kbuild in the first place. We can drop the no-clean-files assignment. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Kbuild | 3 --- Makefile | 2 +- 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Kbuild b/Kbuild index d40366e967d7..3109ac786e76 100644 --- a/Kbuild +++ b/Kbuild @@ -57,6 +57,3 @@ quiet_cmd_atomics = CALL $< old-atomics: scripts/atomic/check-atomics.sh FORCE $(call cmd,atomics) - -# Keep these three files during make clean -no-clean-files := $(bounds-file) $(offsets-file) $(timeconst-file) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 86afce391582..3c186f59f152 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1396,7 +1396,7 @@ DISTCLEAN_FILES += tags TAGS cscope* GPATH GTAGS GRTAGS GSYMS # clean: rm-dirs := $(CLEAN_DIRS) clean: rm-files := $(CLEAN_FILES) -clean-dirs := $(addprefix _clean_, . $(vmlinux-alldirs)) +clean-dirs := $(addprefix _clean_, $(vmlinux-alldirs)) PHONY += $(clean-dirs) clean archclean vmlinuxclean $(clean-dirs): -- 2.17.1