diff --git a/linux-tkg-config/prepare b/linux-tkg-config/prepare
index 954b791..f835ae6 100644
--- a/linux-tkg-config/prepare
+++ b/linux-tkg-config/prepare
@@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ _linux_git_branch_checkout() {
     msg2 "First initialization of the linux source code git folder"
     if [ "$_source_in_tmpfs" = "true" ]; then
       rm -rf "${_where}/linux-src-git"
-      rm -rf "/tmp/linux-src-git" && mkdir "/tmp/linux-src-git"
+      mkdir "/tmp/linux-src-git"
       ln -s "/tmp/linux-src-git" "${_where}"
     else
       mkdir linux-src-git