linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5] cleanups, fixes, and progress towards avoiding "make headers"

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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 11:36:06 +0200
From: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To: John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
 Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Jeff Xu <jeffxu@...omium.org>,
 Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>
Cc: Andrei Vagin <avagin@...gle.com>,
 Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@...gle.com>,
 Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>, Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>,
 Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...ux.dev>,
 "Liam R . Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>,
 Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@...labora.com>,
 Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>, Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>,
 linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
 LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] cleanups, fixes, and progress towards avoiding "make
 headers"

On 08.06.24 04:10, John Hubbard wrote:
> Eventually, once the build succeeds on a sufficiently old distro, the
> idea is to delete $(KHDR_INCLUDES) from the selftests/mm build, and then
> after that, from selftests/lib.mk and all of the other selftest builds.
> 
> For now, this series merely achieves a clean build of selftests/mm on a
> not-so-old distro: Ubuntu 23.04:

Wasn't the plan to rely on the tools/include headers, and pull in there 
whatever we need?

> 
> 1. Add __NR_mseal.
> 

For example, making sure that tools/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h is 
updated to contain __NR_mseal?

... to avoid hand-crafted defines we have to maintain for selftests.

But maybe I am remembering something outdated.

-- 
Cheers,

David / dhildenb