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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.
+
+rm -f arch/powerpc/purgatory/kexec-purgatory.c
+rm -f arch/riscv/purgatory/kexec-purgatory.c
+rm -f arch/x86/purgatory/kexec-purgatory.c
+
+rm -f scripts/extract-cert
+
+rm -f scripts/kconfig/[gmnq]conf-cfg
+
+rm -f rust/target.json
+
+rm -f scripts/bin2c
+
+rm -f .scmversion
+
+rm -rf include/ksym
+
+find . -name '*.usyms' | xargs rm -f
+
+rm -f *.spec