Re: [PATCH 6/6] kbuild: remove kselftest output in mrproper

["Ricardo B. Marlière" <rbm@suse.com>]

On 4/13/26 12:58 PM, Shuah Khan wrote:
> On 4/11/26 06:49, Ricardo B. Marlière wrote:
>> On 4/10/26 4:19 PM, Shuah Khan wrote:
>>> On 3/20/26 12:29, Ricardo B. Marlière wrote:
>>>> Selftests built with O= store generated files by default under
>>>> $(objtree)/kselftest. Those files are not removed by mrproper 
>>>> today, so
>>>> stale generated artifacts can survive across builds and be reused
>>>> unexpectedly.
>>>>
>>>> Add kselftest to MRPROPER_FILES, so that the default kselftest output
>>>> directory as part of mrproper target.
>>>
>>> Does this change remove kselftest build objects in-tree builds?
>>> It didn't for me - also there is kselftest directory under
>>> tools/selftests that has several scripts.
>>>
>>> Can you test this for in-tree builds - I would like this work
>>> for both.
>>>
>>> I dropped this from my next for now. This can go through kbuild
>>> tree.
>>
>> OK! But please also drop 
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest.git/commit/?h=next&id=33880424308df3c2e39fa88ea74f051205ebb7b4
>>
>
> I can do that - you didn't mention the reasons why you want me to drop
> this one. Do other patches in this series depend on this one?

Others are fine. The problem with this one is this:


-    ($dryrun cd "$collection" && $dryrun run_many $tests)
+    ($dryrun cd "$collection" && $dryrun run_many "$tests")


but run_many expects word splitting.

>
> thanks,
> -- Shuah