Re: [PATCH] kbuild: teach kselftest-merge to find nested config files

[Greg KH]

On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 10:16:14AM -0500, Dan Rue wrote:
> Current implementation of kselftest-merge only finds config files that
> are one level deep using `$(srctree)/tools/testing/selftests/*/config`.
> 
> Often, config files are added in nested directories, and do not get
> picked up by kselftest-merge.
> 
> Use `find` to catch all config files under
> `$(srctree)/tools/testing/selftests` instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Rue <dan.rue@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Makefile | 5 ++---
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

To be more specific here, the binderfs test is not catching the config
entry, so it would be nice to get this into the stable trees as well :)

> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index a45f84a7e811..e99e7f9484af 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -1228,9 +1228,8 @@ kselftest-clean:
>  PHONY += kselftest-merge
>  kselftest-merge:
>  	$(if $(wildcard $(objtree)/.config),, $(error No .config exists, config your kernel first!))
> -	$(Q)$(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/kconfig/merge_config.sh \
> -		-m $(objtree)/.config \
> -		$(srctree)/tools/testing/selftests/*/config
> +	$(Q)find $(srctree)/tools/testing/selftests -name config | \
> +		xargs $(srctree)/scripts/kconfig/merge_config.sh -m $(objtree)/.config
>  	+$(Q)$(MAKE) -f $(srctree)/Makefile olddefconfig
>  
>  # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

is find run with $(Q)?  It isn't with other instances in the Makefile.

thanks,

greg k-h