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Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 18:13:08 -0600
From: Shuah Khan <shuah.kh@samsung.com>
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To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: devtest - new make target for build all and run
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On 07/18/2014 05:29 PM, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 02:44:34PM -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
>> Add a new devtest make target to enable developer testing. This
>> new target does full build (make all) and then runs selftests.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <shuah.kh@samsung.com>
>> ---
>>   Makefile | 11 +++++++++++
>>   1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
>> index f3c543d..1ef3128 100644
>> --- a/Makefile
>> +++ b/Makefile
>> @@ -1034,6 +1034,14 @@ headers_check: headers_install
>>   	$(Q)$(MAKE) $(hdr-inst)=arch/$(hdr-arch)/include/uapi/asm $(hdr-dst) HDRCHECK=1
>>
>>   # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> +# Kernel devtest
>> +
>> +PHONY += devtest
>> +devtest:
>> +	make all
>> +	make -C tools/testing/selftests run_tests
>
> The name "devtest" does not give any hints that we are actually
> running the suite of selftest programs.
>
> Is it so because the plan is to extend devtest to cover more than just selftest?
> If not please fix it so it is logical for the user what happens - in other
> words name is selftest or something like that.
>

Yes the intent is to cover more than just selftests in the future.
That is why the target is called devtest.

-- Shuah


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Shuah Khan
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Samsung Research America(Silicon Valley)
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