On 12/12/23 07:12, Mark Brown wrote:
On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 12:29:58PM -0800, John Hubbard wrote:
On 12/11/23 12:21, Mark Brown wrote:
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Or maybe there is an innovative way to do all of this, that we have yet to think of.
We do copy files into tools/include at random times which makes sense for things that aren't uapi, and we are putting bits of uapi there already so we could just expand the set of files copied there. AFAICT the only reason we're copying the uapi files at all is that they're directly in the same include/ directories as everything else and are always referenced with their uapi/ prefix.
Oh, this sounds like it would work nicely. No more "make headers" required (hooray!). Instead, the new approach would be "selftests are allowed to include from tools/include", and then we can just start copying the files that we need to that location, and gradually fix up all the selftests.
I really like this, at first reading anyway.
Muhammad, Shuah, others, what do you think?
+Cc: Muhammad Usama Anjum usama.anjum@collabora.com
thanks,