Re: [PATCH 3/8] Documentation: KUnit: restore note about mrproper in start.rst

[Sadiya Kazi]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 11:02 AM Tales Aparecida
<tales.aparecida@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The "Getting Started" guide should be beginner-friendly, therefore
> add a note about the requirement of a clean source tree when running
> kunit_tool for the first time, and its related error.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tales Aparecida <tales.aparecida@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Hi Tales,
One suggestion on the note below. You could write the note as:

.. note ::
    You may see the following error:
     "The source tree is not clean, please run 'make ARCH=um mrproper'"

    This happens because internally kunit.py specifies
``.kunit``(default option) as the
    build directory in the command ``make O=output/dir``
    through the argument ``--build_dir``.  Hence, before starting
out-of-tree build,
    the source tree must be clean.

   There is also the same caveat mentioned in the "Build directory for
the kernel"
   section of the :doc:`admin-guide </admin-guide/README>`, that is,
   after its use, it must be used for all invocations of ``make``.
   The good news is that it can indeed be solved by running
  ``make ARCH=um mrproper``, just be aware that this will delete the
   current configuration and all generated files.

Regards,
Sadiya

>  Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/start.rst | 16 ++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/start.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/start.rst
> index 165d7964aa13..e4b73adde6d0 100644
> --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/start.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/start.rst
> @@ -19,6 +19,22 @@ can run kunit_tool:
>
>         ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run
>
> +.. note ::
> +       You might see the error:
> +       "The source tree is not clean, please run 'make ARCH=um mrproper'"
> +
> +       That happens because internally kunit.py specifies the build directory in
> +       the command ``make O=output/dir`` through the argument ``--build_dir``,
> +       which is ``.kunit`` by default, and before starting out-of-tree build,
> +       the source tree must be clean.
> +
> +       There's also the same caveats mentioned in the "Build directory for the kernel"
> +       section of the :doc:`admin-guide </admin-guide/README>`, that is,
> +       after it's used it must be used for all invocations of ``make``.
> +       The good news is that it can indeed be solved by running
> +       ``make ARCH=um mrproper``, just be aware that this will delete the
> +       current configuration and all generated files.
> +
>  If everything worked correctly, you should see the following:
>
>  .. code-block::
> --
> 2.37.1
>