linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESEND v4 1/3] kselftests: lib.mk: Add TEST_GEN_MODS

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Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2024 21:27:34 -0300
From: Marcos Paulo de Souza <mpdesouza@...e.com>
To: Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>, Joe Lawrence
	 <joe.lawrence@...hat.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Heiko
 Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>, Vasily Gorbik <gor@...ux.ibm.com>, Alexander
 Gordeev <agordeev@...ux.ibm.com>, Christian Borntraeger
 <borntraeger@...ux.ibm.com>,  Sven Schnelle <svens@...ux.ibm.com>, Josh
 Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>, Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>,  Miroslav
 Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>, Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>, 
 linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, 
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, 
 live-patching@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND v4 1/3] kselftests: lib.mk: Add TEST_GEN_MODS_DIR
 variable

On Tue, 2024-01-09 at 12:31 -0700, Shuah Khan wrote:
> On 1/8/24 10:13, Marcos Paulo de Souza wrote:
> > On Wed, 2024-01-03 at 15:09 -0700, Shuah Khan wrote:
> 
> > > 
> > > Copying source files and object files doesn't sound right. This
> > > isn't
> > > how the ksleftest installs work. Let's fix this.
> > 
> > Hi Shuah,
> > 
> > what do you think about the proposed solution? Could you please
> > amend
> > the fix into the first patch if you think it's the right approach?
> > 
> 
> I would like to see a new revision of the patch series with the fix
> to
> the problem. I will pull this into a separate test branch for us all
> to test different scenarios. I would like to make sure the repo will
> stay clean after install in the case of when out of tree builds.
> 
> Sorry I can't amend the patch as this isn't a trivial merge change.
> This change requires more testing.

I sent a v5 of the patches. This new version has that diff that I sent
earlier to avoid copying the Kbuild files. It worked on make install
and with gen_tar.

Feel free to use this version in your test branch then.

Thanks in advance,
  Marcos

> 
> thanks,
> -- Shuah
> 
> 
>