# \[PATCH v7 02/17\] docs: Makefile: disable check rules on make cleandocs

- From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab \<mchehab+huawei@kernel.org\>
- Date: 2025-06-19 06:50:20 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2025/06/3098520
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-doc/2025/06/3098523/t.md

```text
It doesn't make sense to check for missing ABI and documents
when cleaning the tree.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/Makefile | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile
index d30d66ddf1ad..b98477df5ddf 100644
--- a/Documentation/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/Makefile
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 # for cleaning
 subdir- := devicetree/bindings
 
+ifneq ($(MAKECMDGOALS),cleandocs)
 # Check for broken documentation file references
 ifeq ($(CONFIG_WARN_MISSING_DOCUMENTS),y)
 $(shell $(srctree)/scripts/documentation-file-ref-check --warn)
@@ -14,6 +15,7 @@ endif
 ifeq ($(CONFIG_WARN_ABI_ERRORS),y)
 $(shell $(srctree)/scripts/get_abi.py --dir $(srctree)/Documentation/ABI validate)
 endif
+endif
 
 # You can set these variables from the command line.
 SPHINXBUILD   = sphinx-build
-- 
2.49.0

```