On 12/8/23 14:10, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
So as David already argued, the current thing does not in fact help with b. You just have to install once and the error goes away, then carry that tree for a year and you're running old crap again.
My biggest beef with the whole thing is that I simply do not want to use 'make headers', it doesn't work for me.
I have a ton of output directories and I don't care to build tools into the output dirs, in fact some of them flat out refuse to work that way (bpf comes to mind).
Going with that, then, I believe it is best to simply revert commit 9fc96c7c19df ("selftests: error out if kernel header files are not yet built"). And then follow up with a series of (many) changes to wean the various selftests off of the kernel headers.
I'll post the revert shortly.
thanks,