Re: [PATCH] docs: kselftest: Document the FORCE_TARGETS build variable
From: Shuah Khan
Date: Mon May 04 2026 - 16:58:38 EST
On 4/17/26 11:36, Ricardo B. Marlière wrote:
FORCE_TARGETS has been part of the kselftest build system forThanks Ricardo. I applied it to linux-kselftest next branch.
some time but is absent from the developer documentation. Without
an entry here, users relying on kselftest in CI pipelines would
have to read the selftests Makefile directly to discover the
option.
A build that exits zero despite some targets failing can mask
real breakage and mislead automated systems into reporting
success. Add a dedicated section so that CI authors can easily
find and adopt FORCE_TARGETS=1 to turn such silent partial
failures into hard errors.
Signed-off-by: Ricardo B. Marlière <rbm@xxxxxxxx>
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thanks,
-- Shuah