From: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Ricardo B. Marlière" <rbm@suse.com>,
"Shuah Khan" <shuah@kernel.org>,
"Nathan Chancellor" <nathan@kernel.org>,
"Nicolas Schier" <nsc@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] kbuild: remove kselftest output in mrproper
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:58:52 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7287249f-3afb-487e-adec-8cf08ae7b1ad@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <227fd478-581e-462b-9579-afc5028abced@suse.com>
On 4/11/26 06:49, Ricardo B. Marlière wrote:
> 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
>
I can do that - you didn't mention the reasons why you want me to drop
this one. Do other patches in this series depend on this one?
thanks,
-- Shuah
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-13 15:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-20 18:29 [PATCH 0/6] selftests: run_kselftest.sh cleanup and fixes Ricardo B. Marlière
2026-03-20 18:29 ` [PATCH 1/6] selftests/run_kselftest.sh: Remove unused $ROOT Ricardo B. Marlière
2026-03-20 18:29 ` [PATCH 2/6] selftests/run_kselftest.sh: Add missing quotes Ricardo B. Marlière
2026-03-20 18:29 ` [PATCH 3/6] selftests/run_kselftest.sh: Resolve BASE_DIR with pwd -P Ricardo B. Marlière
2026-03-20 18:29 ` [PATCH 4/6] selftests/run_kselftest.sh: Allow choosing per-test log directory Ricardo B. Marlière
2026-03-20 18:29 ` [PATCH 5/6] selftests: Preserve subtarget failures in all/install Ricardo B. Marlière
2026-03-20 18:29 ` [PATCH 6/6] kbuild: remove kselftest output in mrproper Ricardo B. Marlière
2026-04-10 19:19 ` Shuah Khan
2026-04-11 12:49 ` Ricardo B. Marlière
2026-04-13 15:58 ` Shuah Khan [this message]
2026-04-13 16:22 ` Ricardo B. Marlière
2026-03-31 22:43 ` [PATCH 0/6] selftests: run_kselftest.sh cleanup and fixes Shuah Khan
2026-04-01 11:45 ` Ricardo B. Marlière
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