linux/scripts/remove-stale-files
Nicolas Schier 33bef82263
kbuild: Move gen_init_cpio and gen_initramfs.sh to scripts/
gen_init_cpio and gen_initramfs.sh are part of kbuild and required for
all kernel builds w/ CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD.  Move both to scripts/ to be
more clear about their importance.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aSdrCFkUQup3qb-q@derry.ads.avm.de/
Reviewed-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260928-move-gen_init_cpio-to-scripts-v4-2-f437a33c40ac@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
2026-09-29 22:40:23 +02:00

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#!/bin/sh
set -e
# When you move, remove or rename generated files, you probably also update
# .gitignore and cleaning rules in the Makefile. This is the right thing
# to do. However, people usually do 'git pull', 'git bisect', etc. without
# running 'make clean'. Then, the stale generated files are left over, often
# causing build issues.
#
# Also, 'git status' shows such stale build artifacts as untracked files.
# What is worse, some people send a wrong patch to get them back to .gitignore
# without checking the commit history.
#
# So, when you (re)move generated files, please move the cleaning rules from
# the Makefile to this script. This is run before Kbuild starts building
# anything, so people will not be annoyed by such garbage files.
#
# This script is not intended to grow endlessly. Rather, it is a temporary scrap
# yard. Stale files stay in this file for a while (for some release cycles?),
# then will be really dead and removed from the code base entirely.
# moved to security/selinux/genheaders
rm -f scripts/selinux/genheaders/genheaders
rm -f *.spec
rm -f lib/test_fortify.log
rm -f usr/gen_init_cpio