Re: [Kbuild] How to clean a particular directory ?

From: Paul Mundt
Date: Thu Jan 31 2008 - 03:49:54 EST


On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 09:38:10AM +0100, Francis Moreau wrote:
> I'd like to clean a particular directory in the kernel tree.
>
> I tried several things such as:
>
> $ make drivers/char clean
> $ make -f scripts/Makefile.clean obj=drivers/char
>
> But it doesn't work.
>
> Could anybody give me a hint ?

make SUBDIRS=drivers/char clean

should do the trick. Kbuild might have a magic incantation for it these
days, but that's the way it used to work, and still seems to.
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