| From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> |
| Subject: Documentation: kselftest: "make headers" is a prerequisite |
| Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2023 00:16:36 -0700 |
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| As per a discussion with Muhammad Usama Anjum [1], the following is how |
| one is supposed to build selftests: |
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| make headers && make -C tools/testing/selftests/mm |
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| However, that's not yet documented anywhere. So add it to |
| Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst . |
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| [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/bf910fa5-0c96-3707-cce4-5bcc656b6274@collabora.com/ |
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| Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230606071637.267103-11-jhubbard@nvidia.com |
| Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> |
| Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> |
| Tested-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@collabora.com> |
| Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> |
| Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> |
| Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> |
| Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> |
| Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
| --- |
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| Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst | 1 + |
| 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) |
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| --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst~documentation-kselftest-make-headers-is-a-prerequisite |
| +++ a/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst |
| @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ Running the selftests (hotplug tests are |
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| To build the tests:: |
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| + $ make headers |
| $ make -C tools/testing/selftests |
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| To run the tests:: |
| _ |