On 12/13/23 01:59, David Hildenbrand wrote: ...
Another variation though, would be to run "make headers", and snapshot some of those files into tools/include.
^ this is what I had in mind
If you're writing a test that needs some new fancy thing, update the relevant header.
OK, and Mark Brown's nearby response [1] supports that, as well.
Thus fortified, I plan on doing the following steps:
Step 1: Do nothing about the revert patch that I sent earlier, thus allowing it to continue in its journey (so far, Andrew has moved it into mm-hotfixes-stable branch).
Step 2: Send out a patch for a modest part of selftests/mm, that uses this latest approach, and see how it fares in reviews.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/c0aa00a2-38a5-42da-9951-64131d936f7e@sirena.org.uk
thanks,