From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] selftests/vm: use a common gup_test.h References: <20200928062159.923212-1-jhubbard@nvidia.com> <20200928062159.923212-3-jhubbard@nvidia.com> <20200928125739.GP9916@ziepe.ca> <6481e78f-c70d-133a-ff4a-325b5cd8fd5d@nvidia.com> <20200929163507.GV9916@ziepe.ca> <20200929175524.GX9916@ziepe.ca> <715c49ec-d2a8-45cb-8ace-c6b1b4b8f978@nvidia.com> <20200929190816.GY9916@ziepe.ca> <3022912c-f11b-f564-3a8a-f516ca259a37@nvidia.com> <20200929195356.GZ9916@ziepe.ca> <64bb5ba7-77f7-2f09-44f0-29ee9329b183@linuxfoundation.org> <554699c6-cc01-4c3c-3ed5-26d22ac3bac0@nvidia.com> From: Shuah Khan Message-ID: <9372727e-1a79-913b-5391-e0c4a85bf5a7@linuxfoundation.org> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 14:20:14 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <554699c6-cc01-4c3c-3ed5-26d22ac3bac0@nvidia.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-ID: To: John Hubbard , Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Andrew Morton , Jonathan Corbet , =?UTF-8?B?SsOpcsO0bWUgR2xpc3Nl?= , Ralph Campbell , Shuah Khan , LKML , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, Shuah Khan On 9/29/20 2:11 PM, John Hubbard wrote: > On 9/29/20 1:00 PM, Shuah Khan wrote: >> On 9/29/20 1:53 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: >>> I only remarked because I didn't know it wasn't using kbuild. I >>> thought it would have used the existing HOSTCC stuff, not sure why it >>> is special. >>> >>> The only investment that seems worthwhile would be to switch it to use >>> the normal kbuild stuff?? >>> >> >> I explored switching to kbuild at the kernel summit last year during >> my kselftest where are we talk. >> >> There was push back from several developers. We can definitely explore >> it as long as we can still support being able to build and run >> individual subsystem tests and doesn't break workflow for developers. >> > > Do you have a link or two for that? Especially about the pushback, and > conclusions reached, if any. > Unfortunately no. A I recall it was workflow related issues and ease of running individual subsystem tests and backwards compatibility with stables. Let's start a new discussion and see where we land. thanks, -- Shuah