Re: [PATCH 1/2] selftests: fix the broken individual test for x86

[Michael Ellerman]

Bamvor Jian Zhang <bamvor.zhangjian@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Andy Lutomirski report that build individual testcase in x86 is broken:
>
> $ make -C tools/testing/selftests/x86 ldt_gdt_32
> make: Entering directory '/home/luto/apps/linux/tools/testing/selftests/x86'
> Makefile:44: warning: overriding recipe for target 'clean'
> ../lib.mk:55: warning: ignoring old recipe for target 'clean'
> make: *** No rule to make target 'ldt_gdt_32'.  Stop.
> make: Leaving directory '/home/luto/apps/linux/tools/testing/selftests/x86'
>
> This patch fix this issue by adding default OUTPUT and convert
> target in Makefile of x86.
>
> And also mention this use case in Documentation/kselftests.txt
>
> Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Bamvor Jian Zhang <bamvor.zhangjian@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/kselftest.txt          |  6 ++++++
>  tools/testing/selftests/x86/Makefile | 23 ++++++++++++++---------
>  2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

I don't think this is a good fix, it only fixes this one Makefile, and
it's quite verbose. But if it really bothers Andy then it would be OK as
a stop-gap for 4.11.

cheers