[U-Boot] [PATCH] punt unused clean/distclean targets

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Mike Frysinger,

In message <1316323020-4027-1-git-send-email-vapier at gentoo.org> you wrote:
> The top level Makefile does not do any recursion into subdirs when
> cleaning, so these clean/distclean targets in random arch/board dirs
> never get used.  Punt them all.

I think this is the wrong approach.  Would it not be better to get rid
of the 60 lines of clean/clobber target in the top level Makefile,
including it's brute force methods of "find ... | xargs rm -f" and
actually remove the files from the Makefiles in the respective
directories instead?

This would for example allow that a board maintainer can fix the clean
/ clobber rules for his code without having to edit the top level
Makefile.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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