Re: [PATCH] selftests: always install UAPI headers to the correct directory
From: Shuah Khan
Date: Thu Sep 18 2025 - 14:06:58 EST
On 9/18/25 03:56, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
Currently the UAPI headers are always installed into the source directory.
When building out-of-tree this doesn't work, as the include path will be
wrong and it dirties the source tree, leading to complains by kbuild.
Make sure the 'headers' target installs the UAPI headers in the correctly.
The real target directory can come from multiple places. To handle them all
extract the target directory from KHDR_INCLUDES.
Reported-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250917153209.GA2023406@xxxxxxxxxx/
Fixes: 1a59f5d31569 ("selftests: Add headers target")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>
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tools/testing/selftests/lib.mk | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Applied to linux-kselftest next branch for Linux 6.18-rc1
thanks,
-- Shuah