linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] tools: testing: Allow importing arch headers in shared.mk

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Message-ID: <j2vfxy4sr6wmuovlynvljvmy6as7esevp57hyqkhofxnxnjldf@ul6befrh7eqy>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2025 13:50:09 +0100
From: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@...e.de>
To: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@...gle.com>
Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>, 
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>, 
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	maple-tree@...ts.infradead.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] tools: testing: Allow importing arch headers in
 shared.mk

On Wed, Aug 27, 2025 at 11:04:41AM +0000, Brendan Jackman wrote:
> There is an arch/ tree under tools. This contains some useful stuff, to
> make that available, import the necessary Make helper file and then add
> it to the -I flags.
> 
> There still aren't that many headers so also just smush all of them into
> SHARED_DEPS instead of starting to do any header dependency hocus pocus.
>

I was a little confused as to why this patchset was safe, and - yeah - i missed
the arch/ under tools/.

There are asm-generic headers so hopefully those fully take care of !x86? Did
you check?

In any case:
Acked-by: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@...e.de>

-- 
Pedro