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

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Mike Frysinger,

In message <201109190059.55664.vapier at gentoo.org> you wrote:
>
> if it wasn't clear in my last e-mail, i want to move in the direction of .mk 
> files that the top level would include them and thus all the specific cruft 
> would be kept there

Why should we do that?

Having all build rules in a single, huge Makefile does not sound like
something that is desirable (and in this context it does not make any
difference if the file is actually a concatenation of all these build
rules, or if it's hidden in a set of [probably even nested] includes).

I'm still a big friend of organizing complex stuff in small,
hierarchical structured pieces, so I have to u nderstand it only a
small bit at a time.

Yes, running a number of nested makes may have some performance
penalty.  But frankly: I care a ship about that when I can have the
sofware design simpler and easier to maintain.

> after all, the list of things to clean should be obvious once we have more
> kbuild style system: if it's listed as a file to build, then it should get 
> cleaned.

Keep in mind that you said yourslef we always want to remove _all_
build results - this includes evne those not "listed as a file to
buil" for a specific configuration setting.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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