Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] kbuild: Add "make headers" to "make help" output

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Sat Mar 08 2025 - 11:42:14 EST


On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 08:01:56AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Unfortunately it seems users haven't been following that :(

If by "users haven't been following that" you mean they've been doing

make kselftest

in order to run selftests and *that* thing builds headers, then yes, you're
right.

Oh look:

PHONY += kselftest
kselftest: headers
^^^^^^^^
$(Q)$(MAKE) -C $(srctree)/tools/testing/selftests run_tests

:-P

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