A while back, somebody complained about having problems with their
kernel that required them to do "make mrproper" to clean it up, and
that they lost their configuration doing that, which made them less
than happy...
The enclosed patch adds an extra option to the root makefile which
basically does the "make mrproper" without deleting the current
configuration. This option is "make proper".
I can report that it works on my system, and on that of a friend of
mine, and I can't see anything to prevent it working on every system,
but comments will be much appreciated.
Best wishes from Riley.
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--- linux-2.2.1/Makefile.old Tue Jan 26 01:46:35 1999
+++ linux-2.2.1/Makefile Thu Feb 11 18:11:08 1999
@@ -364,7 +364,7 @@
fi
rm -f submenu*
-mrproper: clean archmrproper
+proper: clean archmrproper
rm -f include/linux/autoconf.h include/linux/version.h
rm -f drivers/net/hamradio/soundmodem/sm_tbl_{afsk1200,afsk2666,fsk9600}.h
rm -f drivers/net/hamradio/soundmodem/sm_tbl_{hapn4800,psk4800}.h
@@ -372,7 +372,6 @@
rm -f drivers/net/hamradio/soundmodem/gentbl
rm -f drivers/char/hfmodem/gentbl drivers/char/hfmodem/tables.h
rm -f drivers/sound/*_boot.h drivers/sound/.*.boot
- rm -f .version .config* config.in config.old
rm -f scripts/tkparse scripts/kconfig.tk scripts/kconfig.tmp
rm -f scripts/lxdialog/*.o scripts/lxdialog/lxdialog
rm -f .menuconfig.log
@@ -384,6 +383,10 @@
rm -f $(TOPDIR)/include/linux/modversions.h
rm -rf $(TOPDIR)/include/linux/modules
rm -rf modules
+
+mrproper: proper
+ rm -f .version .config* config.in config.old
+ make oldconfig
distclean: mrproper
rm -f core `find . \( -name '*.orig' -o -name '*.rej' -o -name '*~' \
-
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