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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-05-08 10:00:11 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-05-08 10:00:11 -0700
commit0f979d815cd52084b99e9f6b367e79488850df2e (patch)
treeb8dd62b6f40d8ad2e0b42cfd73ff2adc7399b7fe /scripts/remove-stale-files
parentab159ac569fddf812c0a217d6dbffaa5d93ef88f (diff)
parent0ab1438bad43d95877f848b7df551bd431680270 (diff)
Merge tag 'kbuild-v5.13-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild
Pull more Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada: - Convert sh and sparc to use generic shell scripts to generate the syscall headers - refactor .gitignore files - Update kernel/config_data.gz only when the content of the .config is really changed, which avoids the unneeded re-link of vmlinux - move "remove stale files" workarounds to scripts/remove-stale-files - suppress unused-but-set-variable warnings by default for Clang as well - fix locale setting LANG=C to LC_ALL=C - improve 'make distclean' - always keep intermediate objects from scripts/link-vmlinux.sh - move IF_ENABLED out of <linux/kconfig.h> to make it self-contained - misc cleanups * tag 'kbuild-v5.13-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (25 commits) linux/kconfig.h: replace IF_ENABLED() with PTR_IF() in <linux/kernel.h> kbuild: Don't remove link-vmlinux temporary files on exit/signal kbuild: remove the unneeded comments for external module builds kbuild: make distclean remove tag files in sub-directories kbuild: make distclean work against $(objtree) instead of $(srctree) kbuild: refactor modname-multi by using suffix-search kbuild: refactor fdtoverlay rule kbuild: parameterize the .o part of suffix-search arch: use cross_compiling to check whether it is a cross build or not kbuild: remove ARCH=sh64 support from top Makefile .gitignore: prefix local generated files with a slash kbuild: replace LANG=C with LC_ALL=C Makefile: Move -Wno-unused-but-set-variable out of GCC only block kbuild: add a script to remove stale generated files kbuild: update config_data.gz only when the content of .config is changed .gitignore: ignore only top-level modules.builtin .gitignore: move tags and TAGS close to other tag files kernel/.gitgnore: remove stale timeconst.h and hz.bc usr/include: refactor .gitignore genksyms: fix stale comment ...
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+set -e
+
+# When you move, remove or rename generated files, you probably also update
+# .gitignore and cleaning rules in the Makefile. This is the right thing
+# to do. However, people usually do 'git pull', 'git bisect', etc. without
+# running 'make clean'. Then, the stale generated files are left over, often
+# causing build issues.
+#
+# Also, 'git status' shows such stale build artifacts as untracked files.
+# What is worse, some people send a wrong patch to get them back to .gitignore
+# without checking the commit history.
+#
+# So, when you (re)move generated files, please move the cleaning rules from
+# the Makefile to this script. This is run before Kbuild starts building
+# anything, so people will not be annoyed by such garbage files.
+#
+# This script is not intended to grow endlessly. Rather, it is a temporary scrap
+# yard. Stale files stay in this file for a while (for some release cycles?),
+# then will be really dead and removed from the code base entirely.
+
+# These were previously generated source files. When you are building the kernel
+# with O=, make sure to remove the stale files in the output tree. Otherwise,
+# the build system wrongly compiles the stale ones.
+if [ -n "${building_out_of_srctree}" ]; then
+ for f in fdt_rw.c fdt_ro.c fdt_wip.c fdt.c
+ do
+ rm -f arch/arm/boot/compressed/${f}
+ done
+fi