linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] Create specific kconfig for kselftest

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Date:	Mon, 04 Jan 2016 15:57:04 +1100
From:	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
To:	Bamvor Zhang Jian <bamvor.zhangjian@...aro.org>,
	linux-api <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	Shuah Khan <shuahkh@....samsung.com>, yann.morin.1998@...e.fr,
	Kevin Hilman <khilman@...aro.org>,
	Tyler Baker <tyler.baker@...aro.org>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>, dvhart@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] Create specific kconfig for kselftest

On Thu, 2015-12-24 at 18:17 +0800, Bamvor Zhang Jian wrote:
> On 12/18/2015 07:44 AM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > On Thu, 2015-12-17 at 17:57 +0800, Bamvor Jian Zhang wrote:
> > > There is a discussion about improving the usability of kselftest by
> > > creating test-specific kconfig in recent kernel Summit.
> > > 
> > > Patch 1 keep test-specific kconfig fragments inside each selftest so
> > > that merge_configs.sh could build up a kernel that can test the
> > > specific or all feature(s).
> > > 
> > > Patch 2 add config option(kselftest-mergeconfig) in make file as a
> > > helper to merge all the test config dependecies to .config.
> > > 
> > > Changes since v2:
> > > 1.  Fix the misuse of objtree and srctree in the
> > >     kselftest-mergeconfig target.
> > > 
> > > Changes since v1:
> > > 1.  Add kselftest-mergeconfig in scripts/kconfig/Makefile according
> > >     to the suggestion from Michael.
> > 
> > Sorry I only just noticed you put it in scripts/kconfig/Makefile. I meant for
> > it to go in Makefile, alongside the other kselftest targets.
> 
> Do you mean "tools/testing/selftest/Makefile"? I try to do it but I could not
> get the objtree and srctree if it is called directly(objtree and srctree is
> defined in toplevel Makefile)

No I meant Makefile, the very top level Makefile.

There is already a kselftest target in there (line 1077), I meant we would add
a kselftest-mergeconfig target in there.

cheers

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