[PATCH] dtbsinstall: don't move target directory out of the way

Jason Cooper jason at lakedaemon.net
Sat Mar 28 08:59:14 PDT 2015


On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 01:37:19PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> No other kernel installation target moves the target directory out of
> the way, even deleting an old version of it.  These are destructive
> operations, ones which the kernel build system should not be making.
> 
> Remove this behaviour.
> 
> If this behaviour is required at installation time, this should be
> done by the installation external to the kernel makefiles, just like
> it would be done for 'make modules_install'.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk>
> ---
>  scripts/Makefile.dtbinst | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Jason Cooper <jason at lakedaemon.net>

thx,

Jason.



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