Re: [PATCH v3 10/11] Documentation: kselftest: "make headers" is a prerequisite

Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-06-06T08:00:36Z

On 6/6/23 12:16 PM, John Hubbard wrote:
> As per a discussion with Muhammad Usama Anjum [1], the following is how
> one is supposed to build selftests:
>
> make headers && make -C tools/testing/selftests/mm
>
> However, that's not yet documented anywhere. So add it to
> Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst .
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/bf910fa5-0c96-3707-cce4-5bcc656b6274@collabora.com/
>
> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
> Cc: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@collabora.com>
> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@collabora.com>

> ---
> Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst
> index 12b575b76b20..6e35d042199c 100644
> --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst
> @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ Running the selftests (hotplug tests are run in limited mode)
>
> To build the tests::
>
> + $ make headers
> $ make -C tools/testing/selftests
>
> To run the tests::

--
BR,
Muhammad Usama Anjum