Re: [PATCH RFC] kunit: respect KBUILD_OUTPUT env variable by default
From: Ryota Sakamoto
Date: Mon Jan 05 2026 - 11:32:25 EST
Hi David,
Thank you for your review.
On Mon, Jan 5, 2026 at 5:53 PM David Gow <davidgow@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Two small thoughts:
> - Do we want to make KBUILD_OUTPUT the KUnit output directory
> directly, rather than nesting .kunit?
> - Do we want to make the --build_dir option relative to KBUILD_OUTPUT,
> instead of the current directory?
>
> Personally, I think the answer to both of those is probably no, so I'm
> happy to take this as-is.
I agree with you that the answer for both points is no. Keeping the nesting in
KBUILD_OUTPUT seems cleaner, and keeping --build_dir explicit avoids confusion.
I will send v2 shortly with the Reviewed-by tag and remove RFC.
Regards,