Re: [PATCH 0/3] selftests/bpf: Fixes for out-of-tree builds

["Nico Pache (Red Hat)" <nico.pache@linux.dev>]

On 9/21/26 3:04 PM, Eduard Zingerman wrote:
> On Mon, 2026-09-21 at 14:40 -0600, Nico Pache (Red Hat) wrote:
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>> Given your series was defferred, and there is a "rewrite" coming, what would
>> be the best approach to working together (between us three) to get these
>> fixes in that series too. 
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> The, "rewrite", as you call it, had landed today.

oh thats great news. I checked on Friday and didnt see it. Thanks for the update :)

> So the series in question can be re-spun.
> Regarding your patch on top of it, it appears you can just post is separately.
> However, I am inclined to be confrontational towards changes like this one.
> The purpose of the selftests makefile is to run selftests as appropriate
> for current tip of the kernel tree using a very specific kernel configuration.
> Main users of this makefile are BPF developers and BPF CI.

Yeah we are trying to reincorporate BPF as part of our CI. It has bit rotted in
the Fedora env, and our large amount of build variant is where things are
starting to go wrong. We need to build selftests for multiple variants, and be
able to specify which variant we are building for. Hence the out-of-tree build
with specific vmlinux.

Is there any other approach you'd suggest? I personally dont work on BPF, but am
trying to cleanup/fix our selftests builds for Upstream/Fedora CI.

Thanks,
-- Nico

> Support for distros customizing the makefile is a non-goal.
> The "PERMISSIVE" change done enough damage already.
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