Greg Thelen's on July 22, 2019 4:32 pm:
> Since commit 9e3596b0c653 ("kbuild: initramfs cleanup, set target from
> Kconfig") "make clean" leaves behind compressed initramfs images.
> Example:
> $ make defconfig
> $ sed -i
> 's|CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE=""|CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE="/tmp/ir.cpio"|' .config
> $ make olddefconfig
> $ make -s
> $ make -s clean
> $ git clean -ndxf | grep initramfs
> Would remove usr/initramfs_data.cpio.gz
>
> clean rules do not have CONFIG_* context so they do not know which
> compression format was used. Thus they don't know which files to
> delete.
>
> Tell clean to delete all possible compression formats.
>
> Once patched usr/initramfs_data.cpio.gz and friends are deleted by
> "make clean".
>
> Fixes: 9e3596b0c653 ("kbuild: initramfs cleanup, set target from Kconfig")
> Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen <[email protected]>
Thanks for that, looks good to me.
Thanks,
Nick
