Avoid that "$(MAKE) -C $(KDIR) M=$(PWD) clean" triggers the following error message when invoked from inside the Makefile of an external kernel module:
rm: cannot remove 'System.map': Permission denied make[1]: *** [clean] Error 1 Cc: Sam Ravnborg <s...@ravnborg.org> Cc: Arnaud Lacombe <lacom...@gmail.com> Cc: Nick Bowler <nbow...@elliptictech.com> Cc: Richard Weinberger <rich...@nod.at> Cc: Michal Marek <mma...@suse.cz> Cc: <sta...@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanass...@acm.org> --- Makefile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 9f6ca12..46b9be5 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1252,7 +1252,7 @@ scripts: ; endif # KBUILD_EXTMOD clean: $(clean-dirs) - $(Q)$(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh clean + $(Q)$(if $(KBUILD_EXTMOD),,$(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh clean) $(call cmd,rmdirs) $(call cmd,rmfiles) @find $(if $(KBUILD_EXTMOD), $(KBUILD_EXTMOD), .) $(RCS_FIND_IGNORE) \ -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/