Kernel: T5641: add --keep-kernel build option to not call "make mrproper"

Option useful during development to not automatically clean the Linux Kernel
source folder of all its intermediate files.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/package-build/linux-kernel/build.py b/scripts/package-build/linux-kernel/build.py
index 6cb6f90f..a5094914 100755
--- a/scripts/package-build/linux-kernel/build.py
+++ b/scripts/package-build/linux-kernel/build.py
@@ -274,6 +274,7 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
     arg_parser.add_argument('--config', default='package.toml', help='Path to the package configuration file')
     arg_parser.add_argument('--packages', nargs='+', help='Names of packages to build (default: all)', default=[])
     arg_parser.add_argument('--install-dependencies', '-i', help='Only install build dependencies', action='store_true')
+    arg_parser.add_argument('--keep-kernel', '-k', help='Keep kernel intermediate objects and not create source tar-ball', action='store_true')
     args = arg_parser.parse_args()
 
     # Load package configuration
@@ -311,7 +312,7 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
         # Copy generated .deb packages to parent directory
         copy_packages(Path(package['name']))
 
-    if linux_kernel_tarball:
+    if linux_kernel_tarball and not args.keep_kernel:
         source_dir = linux_kernel_tarball['source_dir']
         trusted_keys = f'{source_dir}/trusted_keys.pem'
         if os.path.exists(trusted_keys):