From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
"Nathan Chancellor" <nathan@kernel.org>, <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
<linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@collabora.com>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 11/11] selftests: error out if kernel header files are not yet built
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2023 17:39:06 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d12dd3ba-8b24-4fcf-8c55-00c765628836@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231208221007.GO28727@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net>
On 12/8/23 14:10, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> So as David already argued, the current thing does not in fact help with
> b. You just have to install once and the error goes away, then carry
> that tree for a year and you're running old crap again.
>
> My biggest beef with the whole thing is that I simply do not want to use
> 'make headers', it doesn't work for me.
>
> I have a ton of output directories and I don't care to build tools into
> the output dirs, in fact some of them flat out refuse to work that way
> (bpf comes to mind).
Going with that, then, I believe it is best to simply revert commit
9fc96c7c19df ("selftests: error out if kernel header files are not
yet built"). And then follow up with a series of (many) changes to
wean the various selftests off of the kernel headers.
I'll post the revert shortly.
thanks,
--
John Hubbard
NVIDIA
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-12-09 1:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <20230606071637.267103-11-jhubbard@nvidia.com>
2023-07-10 14:20 ` [PATCH v3 10/11] Documentation: kselftest: "make headers" is a prerequisite Mark Brown
[not found] ` <20230606071637.267103-12-jhubbard@nvidia.com>
[not found] ` <8e208e0f-699c-2c34-d66e-bf6d488a7a1e@collabora.com>
2023-06-06 20:10 ` [PATCH v3 11/11] selftests: error out if kernel header files are not yet built John Hubbard
2023-06-07 5:37 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-11-03 12:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-11-03 12:22 ` David Hildenbrand
2023-11-03 12:46 ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-11-03 12:59 ` David Hildenbrand
2023-11-03 13:00 ` David Hildenbrand
2023-11-03 13:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-12-08 15:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-12-08 15:21 ` David Hildenbrand
2023-12-08 20:29 ` John Hubbard
2023-12-08 22:10 ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-12-09 1:39 ` John Hubbard [this message]
2023-12-08 12:44 ` Miroslav Benes
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