Re: [GIT PULL] Kselftest updates for 3.20-rc1

[Shuah Khan <shuahkh-JPH+aEBZ4P+UEJcrhfAQsw@public.gmane.org>]

On 02/09/2015 05:30 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-02-09 at 11:36 -0700, Shuah Khan wrote:
>> Hi Linus,
>>
>> Please pull the following Kselftest updates for 3.20-rc1
>>
>> thanks,
>> -- Shuah
>>
>> The following changes since commit 97bf6af1f928216fd6c5a66e8a57bfa95a659672:
>>
>>   Linux 3.19-rc1 (2014-12-20 17:08:50 -0800)
>>
>> are available in the git repository at:
>>
>>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest
>> tags/linux-kselftest-3.20-rc1
>>
>> for you to fetch changes up to 6ddf898c23d62c974e148efd9e509731324a167a:
>>
>>   selftests/exec: Check if the syscall exists and bail if not
>> (2015-02-04 10:17:35 -0700)
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> Kselftest updates for 3.20-rc1
>>
>> This update adds:
>> - Kselftest install target feature
>> - Fix for selftests/exec test
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> Michael Ellerman (1):
>>       selftests/exec: Check if the syscall exists and bail if not
>>
>> Shuah Khan (20):
>>       selftests/breakpoints: add install target to enable test install
>>       selftests/cpu-hotplug: add install target to enable test install
>>       selftests/efivarfs: add install target to enable test install
>>       selftests/firmware: add install target to enable test install
>>       selftests/ftrace: add install target to enable test install
>>       selftests/ipc: add install target to enable test install
>>       selftests/kcmp: add install target to enable test install
>>       selftests/memfd: add install target to enable test install
>>       selftests/memory-hotplug: add install target to enable test install
>>       selftests/mount: add install target to enable test install
>>       selftests/mqueue: add install target to enable test install
>>       selftests/net: add install target to enable test install
>>       selftests/ptrace: add install target to enable test install
>>       selftests/size: add install target to enable test install
>>       selftests/sysctl: add install target to enable test install
>>       selftests/timers: add install target to enable test install
>>       selftests/user: add install target to enable test install
>>       selftests/vm: add install target to enable test install
>>       selftests: add install target to enable test install
>>       kbuild: add a new kselftest_install make target to install selftests
> 
> 
> I don't understand why you insist on merging this series with the logic copied
> 18 times.
> 
> I'm happy to tweak my series that uses an include file, but I don't see the
> point of merging this series first when almost every line will be removed when
> my series goes in.

Please work on the suggestions I made and rework the patches
and resend. As I mentioned earlier, I want to enable this work
and them make improvements.

thanks,
-- Shuah


-- 
Shuah Khan
Sr. Linux Kernel Developer
Open Source Innovation Group
Samsung Research America (Silicon Valley)
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