I sometimes receive a question why "make -j<N> clean all" does not
work.  It is actually possible to make it work by handling targets
one by one.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]>
---

 Makefile | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index cd9145c..31d138e 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -220,7 +220,8 @@ export srctree objtree VPATH
 version_h := include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h
 old_version_h := include/linux/version.h
 
-no-dot-config-targets := clean mrproper distclean \
+clean-targets := %clean mrproper cleandocs
+no-dot-config-targets := $(clean-targets) \
                         cscope gtags TAGS tags help% %docs check% coccicheck \
                         $(version_h) headers_% archheaders archscripts \
                         kernelversion %src-pkg
@@ -243,6 +244,14 @@ ifeq ($(KBUILD_EXTMOD),)
                 endif
         endif
 endif
+
+# For "make -j clean all", "make -j mrproper defconfig all", etc.
+ifneq ($(filter $(clean-targets),$(MAKECMDGOALS)),)
+        ifneq ($(filter-out $(clean-targets),$(MAKECMDGOALS)),)
+                mixed-targets := 1
+        endif
+endif
+
 # install and modules_install need also be processed one by one
 ifneq ($(filter install,$(MAKECMDGOALS)),)
         ifneq ($(filter modules_install,$(MAKECMDGOALS)),)
-- 
2.7.4

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