linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 5/8] selftests/nolibc: add XARCH and ARCH mapping support

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Message-ID: <20230722120345.GB17311@1wt.eu>
Date:   Sat, 22 Jul 2023 14:03:46 +0200
From:   Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
To:     Zhangjin Wu <falcon@...ylab.org>
Cc:     thomas@...ch.de, arnd@...db.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 5/8] selftests/nolibc: add XARCH and ARCH mapping
 support

On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 05:15:13AM +0800, Zhangjin Wu wrote:
> -	@echo "  run-user     runs the executable under QEMU (uses \$$ARCH, \$$TEST)"
> +	@echo "  run-user     runs the executable under QEMU (uses \$$XARCH, \$$TEST)"

Most users will neither care about nor need XARCH and will wonder what to
put there. Since there's a fallback on ARCH, better indicate something
like:

    (uses $XARCH or $ARCH, and $TEST)

Willy