From: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Ricardo B. Marlière" <rbm@suse.com>,
"Shuah Khan" <shuah@kernel.org>,
"Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, workflows@vger.kernel.org,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: kselftest: Document the FORCE_TARGETS build variable
Date: Mon, 4 May 2026 14:58:27 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <444d823c-40d0-4c14-ac8e-4f810a5a2f04@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260417-selftests-docs-v1-1-32e4a78214eb@suse.com>
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 <rbm@suse.com>
> ---
>
Thanks Ricardo. I applied it to linux-kselftest next branch.
thanks,
-- Shuah
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2026-04-17 17:36 [PATCH] docs: kselftest: Document the FORCE_TARGETS build variable Ricardo B. Marlière
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