linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] selftests/futex: Fix makefile dependencies

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Date:   Wed, 11 Jan 2017 17:48:51 +0900
From:   Stafford Horne <shorne@...il.com>
To:     Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>
Cc:     Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        dvhart@...ux.intel.com, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] selftests/futex: Fix makefile dependencies

On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 12:07:55AM -0800, Darren Hart wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 01:37:19PM +0900, Stafford Horne wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 02:17:18PM -0800, Darren Hart wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 02:10:42PM -0800, Darren Hart wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 01:18:39PM +0900, Stafford Horne wrote:
> > > > > I am working on doing selftests for openrisc and found issues with the
> > > > > futex test is not building after changes to the tests source.
> > > > > 
> > > > > This issue is that the TARGETS variable used in the futex Makefile is
> > > > > also used by the selftests Makefile, so when building from toplevel the
> > > > > TARGETS variable is clobbered and nothing gets built. Changed the
> > > > > variable name to get around that.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Also, the futex makefile did not contain dependencies for all headers,
> > > > > so if we make changes to logging.h rebuild will not happen. Add headers
> > > > > to fix it up.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Stafford Horne <shorne@...il.com>
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks for catching this and the fix.
> > > > 
> > > > +Shuah Khan
> > > > 
> > > > Note: This appears also to be a problem for intel_pstate/Makefile
> > > 
> > > Or, it would be if intel_pstate was listed in selftests/Makefile :-)
> > 
> > Right, thanks for having a look.  I actually have a small patch to also
> > add <stdio.h> to logging.h.  If you have not already fixed the
> > intel_pstate test I'll send them all together.
> 
> Please do, thanks!

Hello,
Actually I just had a look at Shuah's linux-kselftest repo on
kernel.org. It looks like Bamvor Jian has actually fixed a lot of these
issues on the next branch.

I will see what is missing if anything.

-Stafford