linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH bpf-next v3 12/14] bpf: Pull tools/build/feature biz into selftests Makefile

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Date:   Thu, 3 Dec 2020 13:01:27 -0800
From:   Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>
To:     Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@...gle.com>
Cc:     bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        KP Singh <kpsingh@...omium.org>,
        Florent Revest <revest@...omium.org>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next v3 12/14] bpf: Pull tools/build/feature biz into
 selftests Makefile

On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 8:07 AM Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> This is somewhat cargo-culted from the libbpf build. It will be used
> in a subsequent patch to query for Clang BPF atomics support.
>
> Change-Id: I9318a1702170eb752acced35acbb33f45126c44c

Haven't seen this before. What's this Change-Id business?

> Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@...gle.com>
> ---
>  tools/testing/selftests/bpf/.gitignore |  1 +
>  tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile   | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 39 insertions(+)

All this just to detect the support for clang atomics?... Let's not
pull in the entire feature-detection framework unnecessarily,
selftests Makefile is complicated enough without that.

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