Re: [PATCH 6/6] kbuild: remove kselftest output in mrproper

["Ricardo B. Marlière" <rbm@suse.com>]

On 4/10/26 4:19 PM, Shuah Khan wrote:
> On 3/20/26 12:29, Ricardo B. Marlière wrote:
>> Selftests built with O= store generated files by default under
>> $(objtree)/kselftest. Those files are not removed by mrproper today, so
>> stale generated artifacts can survive across builds and be reused
>> unexpectedly.
>>
>> Add kselftest to MRPROPER_FILES, so that the default kselftest output
>> directory as part of mrproper target.
>
> Does this change remove kselftest build objects in-tree builds?
> It didn't for me - also there is kselftest directory under
> tools/selftests that has several scripts.
>
> Can you test this for in-tree builds - I would like this work
> for both.
>
> I dropped this from my next for now. This can go through kbuild
> tree.

OK! But please also drop 
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest.git/commit/?h=next&id=33880424308df3c2e39fa88ea74f051205ebb7b4

Thanks!

>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ricardo B. Marlière <rbm@suse.com>
>> ---
>>   Makefile | 1 +
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
>> index c9b7bee102e8..91e6ec790a0f 100644
>> --- a/Makefile
>> +++ b/Makefile
>> @@ -1662,6 +1662,7 @@ MRPROPER_FILES += include/config 
>> include/generated          \
>>             debian snap tar-install PKGBUILD pacman \
>>             .config .config.old .version \
>>             Module.symvers \
>> +          kselftest \
>>             certs/signing_key.pem \
>>             certs/x509.genkey \
>>             vmlinux-gdb.py \
>>
>
> thanks,
> -- Shuah