linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] kbuild: Add "make headers" to "make help" output

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Message-ID: <20250308164151.GFZ8xzTwiNd1JVcMHT@fat_crate.local>
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2025 17:41:51 +0100
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
	"Xin Li (Intel)" <xin@...or.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, nathan@...nel.org, nicolas@...sle.eu,
	sraithal@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] kbuild: Add "make headers" to "make help" output

On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 08:01:56AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Unfortunately it seems users haven't been following that :(

If by "users haven't been following that" you mean they've been doing

make kselftest

in order to run selftests and *that* thing builds headers, then yes, you're
right.

Oh look:

PHONY += kselftest
kselftest: headers
	   ^^^^^^^^
        $(Q)$(MAKE) -C $(srctree)/tools/testing/selftests run_tests

:-P

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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