As you can see in scripts/Kbuild.include, the filechk creates the parent directory of the target as needed. This Makefile does not need to explicitly create the directory. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/s390/tools/Makefile | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/s390/tools/Makefile b/arch/s390/tools/Makefile index 8fb66c99840a..4864ea5e6ceb 100644 --- a/arch/s390/tools/Makefile +++ b/arch/s390/tools/Makefile @@ -16,9 +16,6 @@ hostprogs-y += gen_opcode_table HOSTCFLAGS_gen_facilities.o += $(LINUXINCLUDE) -# Ensure output directory exists -_dummy := $(shell [ -d '$(kapi)' ] || mkdir -p '$(kapi)') - filechk_facility-defs.h = $(obj)/gen_facilities filechk_dis-defs.h = \ -- 2.17.1