Re: [PATCH 6/6] kbuild: remove kselftest output in mrproper

[Ricardo B. Marlière]

On 4/10/26 4:19 PM, Shuah Khan wrote:
> On 3/20/26 12:29, Ricardo B. Marlière wrote:
> > Selftests built with O= store generated files by default under
> > $(objtree)/kselftest. Those files are not removed by mrproper today, so
> > stale generated artifacts can survive across builds and be reused
> > unexpectedly.
> >
> > Add kselftest to MRPROPER_FILES, so that the default kselftest output
> > directory as part of mrproper target.
>
> Does this change remove kselftest build objects in-tree builds?
> It didn't for me - also there is kselftest directory under
> tools/selftests that has several scripts.
>
> Can you test this for in-tree builds - I would like this work
> for both.
>
> I dropped this from my next for now. This can go through kbuild
> tree.

OK! But please also drop 
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest.git/commit/?h=next&id=33880424308df3c2e39fa88ea74f051205ebb7b4

Thanks!

> > Signed-off-by: Ricardo B. Marlière <rbm@xxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >   Makefile | 1 +
> >   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> > index c9b7bee102e8..91e6ec790a0f 100644
> > --- a/Makefile
> > +++ b/Makefile
> > @@ -1662,6 +1662,7 @@ MRPROPER_FILES += include/config 
> > include/generated          \
> >             debian snap tar-install PKGBUILD pacman \
> >             .config .config.old .version \
> >             Module.symvers \
> > +          kselftest \
> >             certs/signing_key.pem \
> >             certs/x509.genkey \
> >             vmlinux-gdb.py \
>
> thanks,
> -- Shuah