1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/tags.sh b/scripts/tags.sh
index 0bc8588b630f..0d6004e20658 100755
--- a/scripts/tags.sh
+++ b/scripts/tags.sh
@@ -166,9 +166,6 @@ exuberant()
         all_defconfigs | xargs -r $1 -a                         \
         --langdef=dotconfig --language-force=dotconfig          \
         --regex-dotconfig='/^#?[[:blank:]]*(CONFIG_[[:alnum:]_]+)/\1/'
-
-        # Remove structure forward declarations.
-        LANG=C sed -i -e '/^\([a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_]*\)\t.*\t\/\^struct \1;.*\$\/;"\tx$/d' tags
 }
 
 emacs()
@@ -233,6 +230,7 @@ if [ "${ARCH}" = "um" ]; then
         fi
 fi
 
+remove_structs=
 case "$1" in
         "cscope")
                 docscope
@@ -245,10 +243,17 @@ case "$1" in
         "tags")
                 rm -f tags
                 xtags ctags
+                remove_structs=y
                 ;;
 
         "TAGS")
                 rm -f TAGS
                 xtags etags
+                remove_structs=y
                 ;;
 esac
+
+# Remove structure forward declarations.
+if [ -n $remove_structs ]; then
+    LANG=C sed -i -e '/^\([a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_]*\)\t.*\t\/\^struct \1;.*\$\/;"\tx$/d' $1
+fi