Re: [PATCH 1/2][4.15?] tools/x86: don't rebuild cpuid-autogen.h every time

[Ian Jackson <iwj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jan Beulich writes ("Re: [PATCH 1/2][4.15?] tools/x86: don't rebuild 
cpuid-autogen.h every time"):
> On 08.03.2021 13:12, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > This will leave the entire directory structure but I think that is
> > fine.  The xen-dir target uses mkdir -p and should there be any stale
> > directories (eg due to switching branches or whatever) they wouldn't
> > be a problem.
> 
> Right. Thinking of it though - all we do is setting up symlinks
> plus produce this generated header. Couldn't we therefore have
> find simply arrange for all symlinks to be found and deleted?

I think that would be another alternative, if there is nothing else in
there but symlinks.

Ian.