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diff --git a/scripts/remove-stale-files b/scripts/remove-stale-files new file mode 100755 index 0000000000..8b1a636f85 --- /dev/null +++ b/scripts/remove-stale-files @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +#!/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. + +rm -f arch/powerpc/purgatory/kexec-purgatory.c +rm -f arch/riscv/purgatory/kexec-purgatory.c +rm -f arch/x86/purgatory/kexec-purgatory.c + +rm -f scripts/extract-cert + +rm -f scripts/kconfig/[gmnq]conf-cfg + +rm -f rust/target.json + +rm -f scripts/bin2c + +rm -f .scmversion + +rm -rf include/ksym + +find . -name '*.usyms' | xargs rm -f + +rm -f binkernel.spec |