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

John Hubbard
2023-06-06T07:17:31Z

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>
---
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::
--
2.40.1