This is a remnant of commit 5e9e95cc9148 ("kbuild: implement
CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS without recursion").

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
---

 Makefile | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 4425d87dd2fa..f451241d0feb 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1596,7 +1596,7 @@ endif
 # make distclean Remove editor backup files, patch leftover files and the like
 
 # Directories & files removed with 'make clean'
-CLEAN_FILES += include/ksym vmlinux.symvers modules-only.symvers \
+CLEAN_FILES += vmlinux.symvers modules-only.symvers \
 	       modules.builtin modules.builtin.modinfo modules.nsdeps \
 	       compile_commands.json .thinlto-cache rust/test rust/doc \
 	       rust-project.json .vmlinux.objs .vmlinux.export.c
-- 
2.39.2

On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 4:43 AM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> This is a remnant of commit 5e9e95cc9148 ("kbuild: implement
> CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS without recursion").
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

Thanks for the patch! I didn't see any more references to include/ksym
after this commit.
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

> ---
>
>  Makefile | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 4425d87dd2fa..f451241d0feb 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -1596,7 +1596,7 @@ endif
>  # make distclean Remove editor backup files, patch leftover files and the like
>
>  # Directories & files removed with 'make clean'
> -CLEAN_FILES += include/ksym vmlinux.symvers modules-only.symvers \
> +CLEAN_FILES += vmlinux.symvers modules-only.symvers \
>                modules.builtin modules.builtin.modinfo modules.nsdeps \
>                compile_commands.json .thinlto-cache rust/test rust/doc \
>                rust-project.json .vmlinux.objs .vmlinux.export.c
> --
> 2.39.2
>


-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers