From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751177AbbLIT6I (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Dec 2015 14:58:08 -0500 Received: from mail-io0-f193.google.com ([209.85.223.193]:34436 "EHLO mail-io0-f193.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750829AbbLIT6G (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Dec 2015 14:58:06 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 12:58:05 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/12] selftests/x86: Extend Makefile to allow 64-bit only tests From: Shuah Khan To: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Andy Lutomirski , X86 ML , LKML , Brian Gerst , Borislav Petkov , =?UTF-8?B?RnLDqWTDqXJpYyBXZWlzYmVja2Vy?= , Denys Vlasenko , Linus Torvalds Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 12:22 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Shuah Khan wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 2:51 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >>> There aren't any yet, but there might be a few some day. >> >> Andy, >> >> Hmm. I would think get_maintainer script should have included >> linux-api and as well as my email for this patch. > > Whoops, my bad. > > Although... isn't it about time that selftests got its own list? > I probably should do that. >> >> Anyway, I would like to see a better worded changelog. >> Something along the lines >> >> Makefile changes to enable x86_64 tests. > > I find that confusing. The Makefile already supports x86_64 tests. > What's missing is support for tests that are x86_64 but not x86_32. > Right. Exactly why I asked you to make the change log better. You could hrase what you just told me and that would help me understand the change better. Something along the lines: Change Makefille to add support for x86_64 tests that don't run on x86_32. thanks, -- Shuah