Re: [PATCH v6 37/41] selftests/x86: Add shadow stack test

[Borislav Petkov]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 05:54:55PM +0000, Edgecombe, Rick P wrote:
> The proposed Makefile solution seems a bit unusual. What about this
> less complicated solution to just make this case work?

I like simple. :)

> So alternatively, why not just always encourage building the headers
> before running the selftests by warning if
> ${abs_srctree}/usr/include/linux is not found?

s/encourage/automate/

Imagine this situation: maintainer says: "please run the selftests".
User says, "uh oh, it fails building, I need to figure that out first."

So we should not have users have to figure out stuff if we can code it
to happen automatically for the default case.

If they want something special, then they can do all the figuring out
they want. :-)

Thx.

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