diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
index 867608ab3ca04606403cec807b18f80d4f404e3d..960f4025ee86309c424f471f4a20769d729c2650 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
@@ -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 4fb7ea0f7ac8fc75a9d2486d461737ff3757eefc..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- 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