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Date:   Tue, 17 Oct 2023 20:07:33 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8192u: remove entry from Makefile
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To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Cc:     linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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From:   Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com>
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On 10/17/23 15:35, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 12:35:57PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> On 17.10.23 10:13, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>> In commit 697455ce4110 ("staging: rtl8192u: Remove broken driver"), the
>>> driver was removed, along with the Kconfig entry, but the Makefile line
>>> in drivers/staging/Makefile was not updated, so things like 'make clean'
>>> fail to work properly as they will decend into all subdirectories to try
>>> to clean things up.
>>>
>>> Resolve this by removing the entry in the main staging Makefile.
>>>
>>> Reported-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
>>> Cc: Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com>
>>> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>>> Fixes: 697455ce4110 ("staging: rtl8192u: Remove broken driver")
>>> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
>>
>> Thx Greg, that fixed things for my case. In case anyone cares:
> 
> I care, thanks!


Sorry for messing up. I did a compile test of the entire kernel but I 
was not aware that I also need to test 'make clean'

Bye Philipp