linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] doc: dev-tools: kselftest.rst: update contributing new tests

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Message-ID: <d65f770f-e871-53e4-828f-4ba94df90ae3@kernel.org>
Date:   Tue, 24 Apr 2018 13:35:47 -0600
From:   Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>
To:     Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@...aro.org>, corbet@....net
Cc:     linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] doc: dev-tools: kselftest.rst: update contributing new
 tests

On 04/19/2018 04:28 AM, Anders Roxell wrote:
> Add a description that the kernel headers should be used as far as it is
> possible and then the system headers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@...aro.org>
> ---
>  Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst
> index e80850eefe13..3bf371a938d0 100644
> --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst
> @@ -151,6 +151,11 @@ Contributing new tests (details)
>     TEST_FILES, TEST_GEN_FILES mean it is the file which is used by
>     test.
>  
> + * First use the headers inside the kernel source and/or git repo, and then the
> +   system headers.  Headers for the kernel release as opposed to headers
> +   installed by the distro on the system should be the primary focus to be able
> +   to find regressions.
> +
>  Test Harness
>  ============
>  
> 

Here is my reviewed by for this to go through documentation tree.

Reviewed-by: Shuah Khan (Samsung OSG) <shuah@...nel.org>

thanks,
-- Shuah