On 12/2/22 3:03 PM, Shuah Khan wrote: > On 12/2/22 02:25, Petr Mladek wrote: >> >> Yes, kABI is not backward compatible. But building the tests >> modules out-of-tree way would allow to build test modules with >> different kABI from the same sources. >> > > Okay. This is a solid reason for livepatch modules to live under > sefltests. Let's capture this in README and the other updates that > need to be made to it in v3. > One additional benefit, however small, is that I think everyone is building production livepatches, source based or via kpatch-build, as out-of-tree modules. (Miroslav/Petr/Marcos please correct me if I'm wrong about source based.) Having the livepatch selftests live under selftests/ would imply that new subsystem (build) features would have to support the production build use case from the get go. Regards, -- Joe
