On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 at 21:30, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 08/08/19 17:10, Andrew Jones wrote: > >> > > What does the kselftests config file do? I was about to complain that this > > would break compiling on non-x86 platforms, but 'make kselftest' and other > > forms of invoking the build work fine on aarch64 even with this config > > file. So is this just for documentation? If so, then its still obviously > > wrong for non-x86 platforms. The only config that makes sense here is KVM. > > If the other options need to be documented for x86, then should they get > > an additional config file? tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86_64/config? > > My understanding is that a config file fragment requires some kind of > kconfig invocation to create a full .config file. When you do that, > unknown configurations are dropped silently. You are right on this point. As you said, unknown configs getting dropped for arm64 cross compilation. - Naresh
