Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Anders Roxell <> | Subject | [PATCH v2] doc: dev-tools: kselftest.rst: update contributing new tests | Date | Thu, 19 Apr 2018 12:28:25 +0200 |
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Add a description that the kernel headers should be used as far as it is possible and then the system headers.
Signed-off-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org> --- Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst index e80850eefe13..3bf371a938d0 100644 --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst @@ -151,6 +151,11 @@ Contributing new tests (details) TEST_FILES, TEST_GEN_FILES mean it is the file which is used by test. + * First use the headers inside the kernel source and/or git repo, and then the + system headers. Headers for the kernel release as opposed to headers + installed by the distro on the system should be the primary focus to be able + to find regressions. + Test Harness ============ -- 2.11.0
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