Re: [PATCH 5/6] selftests: Preserve subtarget failures in all/install

From: Mark Brown

Date: Wed Apr 15 2026 - 12:28:04 EST


On Wed, Apr 15, 2026 at 09:40:37AM -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
> On 4/15/26 07:58, Mark Brown wrote:

> > This wasn't showing up in my -next build tests since I set FORCE_TARGETS
> > and explicitly choose a restricted set of kselftests which actually
> > build with my system and configuration. It was less obvious than it
> > should have been with the other systems since they did not expect there
> > to be a complete failure to generate a kselftest tarball and variously
> > masked the error or reported it in a manner that looked like an
> > infrastructure issue.

> I didn't see it when I did test on linux-next and my repo. I did install
> to catch problems.

> Sorry for not catching this. We can drop this patch.

Yeah, it's easy to miss if you're set up to build everything.

> Mark, would you like to a revert for this?

Yes, I'll massage the text from my report into a changelog send
something - it'll probably be tomorrow now.

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