On Wed, 2026-09-23 at 14:06 -0600, Nico Pache (Red Hat) wrote: > > On 9/21/26 3:42 PM, Eduard Zingerman wrote: > > On Mon, 2026-09-21 at 15:15 -0600, Nico Pache (Red Hat) wrote: > > > > > > On 9/21/26 3:04 PM, Eduard Zingerman wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2026-09-21 at 14:40 -0600, Nico Pache (Red Hat) wrote: > > > > > > > > ... > > > > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > > > 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. > > > > Why can't you build the kernel and the selftests in the same out of tree > > location? > > The change you are proposing is contained, but it's a death by thousand > > cuts, > > the selftests makefile is quite a Frankenstein's monster already. > > Due to incremental builds, and tool building in different env's
Can you copy vmlinux to the output directory? > > > > > 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. > > > > How many Fedora-specific kernel patches do you carry already? > > So far its just the series Im replying to here, and the commit I appended. Okay, I was under impression that distros bear a ton of custom patches and that adding another one adjusting random makefiles won't make a difference. If that is not the case, then I'm being unreasonable and the change is small.
