Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] refactor the ringtest testing for ptr_ring

From: Yunsheng Lin
Date: Mon Jul 05 2021 - 08:06:57 EST


On 2021/7/5 17:56, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 05, 2021 at 11:57:33AM +0800, Yunsheng Lin wrote:
>> tools/include/* have a lot of abstract layer for building
>> kernel code from userspace, so reuse or add the abstract
>> layer in tools/include/ to build the ptr_ring for ringtest
>> testing.
>
> ...
>
>> create mode 100644 tools/include/asm/cache.h
>> create mode 100644 tools/include/asm/processor.h
>> create mode 100644 tools/include/generated/autoconf.h
>> create mode 100644 tools/include/linux/align.h
>> create mode 100644 tools/include/linux/cache.h
>> create mode 100644 tools/include/linux/slab.h
>
> Maybe somebody can change this to be able to include in-tree headers directly?

If the above works, maybe the files in tools/include/* is not
necessary any more, just use the in-tree headers to compile
the user space app?

Or I missed something here?

>
> Besides above, had you tested this with `make O=...`?

You are right, the generated/autoconf.h is in another directory
with `make O=...`.

Any nice idea to fix the above problem?

>