Re: [PATCH 0/5] cleanups, fixes, and progress towards avoiding "make headers"

David Hildenbrand
2024-06-11T09:36:18Z

On 08.06.24 04:10, John Hubbard wrote:
> Eventually, once the build succeeds on a sufficiently old distro, the
> idea is to delete $(KHDR_INCLUDES) from the selftests/mm build, and then
> after that, from selftests/lib.mk and all of the other selftest builds.
>
> For now, this series merely achieves a clean build of selftests/mm on a
> not-so-old distro: Ubuntu 23.04:

Wasn't the plan to rely on the tools/include headers, and pull in there
whatever we need?

>
> 1. Add __NR_mseal.
>

For example, making sure that tools/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h is
updated to contain __NR_mseal?

... to avoid hand-crafted defines we have to maintain for selftests.

But maybe I am remembering something outdated.

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Cheers,

David / dhildenb