linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] selftests: Disable revocable code from build

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Message-ID: <2026020401-fencing-opossum-f5cd@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2026 09:21:18 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@...nel.org>
Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>, Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>,
	"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
	Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@....qualcomm.com>,
	Linus Walleij <linusw@...nel.org>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
	Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>,
	Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@...g-engineering.com>,
	Simona Vetter <simona.vetter@...ll.ch>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] selftests: Disable revocable code from build

On Wed, Feb 04, 2026 at 05:28:18AM +0000, Tzung-Bi Shih wrote:
> The revocable code is still under active discussion, and there is no
> in-kernel users of it.  So disable it from the build for now so that no
> one suffers from it being present in the tree, yet leave it in the
> source tree so that others can easily test it by reverting this commit
> and building off of it for future releases.
> 
> Fixes: dd7762c73b1c ("driver core: disable revocable code from build")
> Signed-off-by: Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@...nel.org>
> ---
> Greg: I realized "driver core: disable revocable code from build" is
> already in driver-core-testing branch.  Sent this independent patch
> in case it'd need to.
> 
>  tools/testing/selftests/Makefile | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile
> index 11b6515ce3d0..56e44a98d6a5 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile
> @@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ TARGETS += damon
>  TARGETS += devices/error_logs
>  TARGETS += devices/probe
>  TARGETS += dmabuf-heaps
> -TARGETS += drivers/base/revocable
>  TARGETS += drivers/dma-buf
>  TARGETS += drivers/ntsync
>  TARGETS += drivers/s390x/uvdevice
> -- 
> 2.53.0.rc2.204.g2597b5adb4-goog

Thanks, I'll merge this into the other commit so that it all happens at
once, and can be reverted easier.

greg k-h