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| author | Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org> | 2018-04-19 12:28:25 +0200 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2018-04-27 16:56:15 -0600 |
| commit | a997a703d08f805eb8767fbc586fd938f09d13cc (patch) | |
| tree | 6286c1b2d1686f143c874591e600e8405cf74c45 /Documentation/dev-tools | |
| parent | 6dddd7a7ec34bd8680ef72de0229cf8a92bd01ab (diff) | |
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doc: dev-tools: kselftest.rst: update contributing new tests
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>
Reviewed-by: Shuah Khan (Samsung OSG) <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
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 ============ |