Re: [PATCH bpf-next v8 0/9] selftests/bpf: restructure the Makefile as a layered build

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Hello:

This series was applied to bpf/bpf-next.git (master)
by Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>:

On Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:58:46 -0700 you wrote:
> The BPF selftests Makefile has grown to ~1,100 lines, with much of the
> complexity concentrated in the DEFINE_TEST_RUNNER double-expansion
> machinery: the per-runner rules are written in $$-escaped make and
> eval'd once per flavor, so the rules that actually run never appear in
> the source and are easy to break for one flavor while testing another.
> 
> The series opens with six small stand-alone changes, each usable (or
> droppable) on its own: patch 1 filters headers off the generic link
> rule's command line (gcc tolerates a stray .h there, clang refuses);
> patch 2 drops four stale target-specific lines that name objects nothing
> builds - restoring the two dependencies of value among them in working
> form (flow_dissector_load.h against the binary;
> cgroup_getset_retval_hooks.h by moving it under progs/, where the
> blanket header prerequisite of the BPF object rules covers it) - plus
> three never-referenced linked-skeleton dependency-map entries, a no-op
> CURDIR override and the OBJCOPY definition nothing reads; patch 3
> factors the eleven identical permissive-mode "remove the target, print
> SKIP, report success" recipe tails into a skip_on_fail helper; patch 4
> makes the signing key generation race-free under -j; patch 5 turns the
> verifier/tests.h $(shell)-in-recipe into a regular recipe; patch 6
> derives the bench object list from the sources with a wildcard.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [bpf-next,v8,1/9] selftests/bpf: keep headers off the generic link command line
    https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/75ab33a0a50f
  - [bpf-next,v8,2/9] selftests/bpf: drop stale lines, restore two header dependencies
    https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/35ac30e71745
  - [bpf-next,v8,3/9] selftests/bpf: factor the permissive-mode skip suffix into a helper
    https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/00c2b472d5dd
  - [bpf-next,v8,4/9] selftests/bpf: generate the signing key and certificate once
    https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/73fb8cea7269
  - [bpf-next,v8,5/9] selftests/bpf: generate verifier/tests.h in a regular recipe
    https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/7292e0ad85d5
  - [bpf-next,v8,6/9] selftests/bpf: derive the bench object list from the sources
    https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/063fa645c723
  - [bpf-next,v8,7/9] selftests/bpf: extract BPF skeleton generation into a helper script
    https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/da6cb3aff2cb
  - [bpf-next,v8,8/9] selftests/bpf: move shared build definitions into Makefile.buildvars
    https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/ab1d791d0cc4
  - [bpf-next,v8,9/9] selftests/bpf: build each test runner instance in its own sub-make
    https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/ef3744f49d98

You are awesome, thank you!
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