On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 01:59:21PM +0100, Romain Francoise wrote:

Pawel Moll [off-list ref] writes:

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Since commit 1f2bfbd00e466ff3489b2ca5cc75b1cccd14c123 "kbuild:
link of vmlinux moved to a script" make clean with M=<dir>
argument (so cleaning external module) removes vmlinux,
System.map and couple of other files from the *main* kernel
build directory! This not what was happening before and almost
certainly not what one would expect.

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This patch moves makes the clean target of the script called
only when !KBUILD_EXTMOD.

Thanks, I have the same problem and this patch fixes it.

Michal, can you pick it up? It's not yet in kbuild.git, it seems.

Sorry for the delay. I applied it to kbuild.git#kbuild now, with

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [v3.5+]

Michal