3 files changed, 4 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
index 867608ab3ca0..10b5cd6c54a0 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ psdocs: $(PS)
 PDF := $(patsubst %.xml, %.pdf, $(BOOKS))
 pdfdocs: $(PDF)
 
-HTML := $(patsubst %.xml, %.html, $(BOOKS))
+HTML := $(sort $(patsubst %.xml, %.html, $(BOOKS)))
 htmldocs: $(HTML)
 
 MAN := $(patsubst %.xml, %.9, $(BOOKS))
@@ -152,6 +152,7 @@ quiet_cmd_db2man = MAN     $@
         @(which xmlto > /dev/null 2>&1) || \
          (echo "*** You need to install xmlto ***"; \
           exit 1)
+        $(Q)mkdir -p $(obj)/man
         $(call cmd,db2man)
         @touch $@
 
@@ -212,11 +213,7 @@ clean-files := $(DOCBOOKS) \
         $(patsubst %.xml, %.9,    $(DOCBOOKS)) \
         $(C-procfs-example)
 
-clean-dirs := $(patsubst %.xml,%,$(DOCBOOKS))
-
-#man put files in man subdir - traverse down
-subdir- := man/
-
+clean-dirs := $(patsubst %.xml,%,$(DOCBOOKS)) man
 
 # Declare the contents of the .PHONY variable as phony.  We keep that
 # information in a variable se we can use it in if_changed and friends.
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/man/Makefile b/Documentation/DocBook/man/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644
index 4fb7ea0f7ac8..000000000000
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/man/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-# Rules are put in Documentation/DocBook
-
-clean-files := *.9.gz *.sgml manpage.links manpage.refs
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt
index 769ee05ee4d1..1d247d59ad56 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ following files:
                 --> filename: Makefile
                 KERNELDIR := /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build
                 all::
-                        $(MAKE) -C $KERNELDIR M=`pwd` $@
+                        $(MAKE) -C $(KERNELDIR) M=`pwd` $@
 
                 # Module specific targets
                 genbin: