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

[H. Peter Anvin]

On March 8, 2025 8:41:51 AM PST, Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>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
>

That's not the only one. Point being that users have been using it so it is better to make it official than breaking it.