On 11.12.23 18:32, Mark Brown wrote:
On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 05:53:59PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
(3) avoids dirtying the tree as a "make headers_install" would, but it also
means that each test that makes use of new uapi has to update the relevant
headers (what people working on QEMU are used to).
Note that you can do an out of tree build to avoid dirtying things.
Yes, but apparently the simple "make headers_install" will dirty the kernel.
See (and ideally comment on)
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231209020144.244759-1-jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx
I mean, I guess people who don't want to install the headers are just
not going to be able to build a bunch of tests? There definitely are a
bunch of tests where it's not needed so I can see why people would not
like being forced to do the headers step if they're only interested in
those tests.
Yes. And before that, people mostly had no clue that headers had to be
installed in order to compile successfully.
So maybe a warning to give at least some hint might be reasonable.
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Cheers,
David / dhildenb
