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Mon, 04 May 2026 13:58:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.14] ([38.15.57.99]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 586e51a60fabf-43454cbbbd7sm10977170fac.10.2026.05.04.13.58.27 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 04 May 2026 13:58:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <444d823c-40d0-4c14-ac8e-4f810a5a2f04@linuxfoundation.org> Date: Mon, 4 May 2026 14:58:27 -0600 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: kselftest: Document the FORCE_TARGETS build variable To: =?UTF-8?Q?Ricardo_B=2E_Marli=C3=A8re?= , Shuah Khan , Jonathan Corbet Cc: linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Shuah Khan References: <20260417-selftests-docs-v1-1-32e4a78214eb@suse.com> Content-Language: en-US From: Shuah Khan In-Reply-To: <20260417-selftests-docs-v1-1-32e4a78214eb@suse.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On 4/17/26 11:36, Ricardo B. Marlière wrote: > FORCE_TARGETS has been part of the kselftest build system for > some time but is absent from the developer documentation. Without > an entry here, users relying on kselftest in CI pipelines would > have to read the selftests Makefile directly to discover the > option. > > A build that exits zero despite some targets failing can mask > real breakage and mislead automated systems into reporting > success. Add a dedicated section so that CI authors can easily > find and adopt FORCE_TARGETS=1 to turn such silent partial > failures into hard errors. > > Signed-off-by: Ricardo B. Marlière > --- > Thanks Ricardo. I applied it to linux-kselftest next branch. thanks, -- Shuah