Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] selftests: enable O and KBUILD_OUTPUT

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Shuah Khan <shuahkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On 03/21/2017 03:00 AM, Bamvor Zhang Jian wrote:
>> On 21 March 2017 at 16:35, Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 3:55 AM,  <bamvor.zhangjian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> From: Bamvor Jian Zhang <bamvor.zhangjian@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>
>>>>> Enable O and KBUILD_OUTPUT for kselftest. User could compile kselftest
>>>>> to another directory by passing O or KBUILD_OUTPUT. And O is high
>>>>> priority than KBUILD_OUTPUT.
>>>>
>>>> Sorry for noticing this late, but this patch
>>>> (a8ba798bc8ec663cf02e80b0dd770324de9bafd9) is really annoying for
>>>> people who *don't* use these fancy options:
>>>
>>> Yeah sorry, it wasn't quite ready to go in.
>
> Bamovar,
>
> Please give me heads up and ask me to not commit the patch,
> if you think it isn't ready.

That was me who wrote that above.

>> Do we really need "make -C tools/testing/selftests/x86 ldt_gdt_32"?
>> It is useful but it will skip the top level Makefile of selftests.
>
> Being able to build individual tests is an important use-case.

Then it needs to be tested before changes are merged.

cheers
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