[kbuild-devel] "make clean" cleans Linux source tree, not my external driver

[Timur Tabi]

For our project, we have some shell scripts that build all of the 
components in one shot.  The main script traverses directories to get to 
each component.  When it enters the device driver's directory, it calls 
a small shell script which decides whether we're compiling against a 
Linux kernel 2.4-based tree or one for Linux kernel 2.6, and then calls 
"make" in the appropriate manner.

The problem is when this script tries to do a "make clean".  For 2.6 
(aka, kbuild), this is command that is executed:

        make -C /usr/src/linux SUBDIRS=$PWD clean
When I execute this command, it does the same thing as:
        cd /usr/src/linux
        make clean
Obviously, this is just going to cause havoc!  Instead of cleaning my 
external module, it cleans my Linux source tree!

Is "make clean" supposed to work with external modules and kbuild?  I'm 
using Suse Linux 9.1 Pro.  I have a suspicion that Suse's using an old 
version of kbuild.

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Timur Tabi
Staff Software Engineer
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