Add tips to clean source tree to build help message. When user run
kunit.py after building another kernel for ARCH=foo, it is necessary
to run 'make ARCH=foo mrproper' to remove all build artifacts generated
during the build. In such cases, kunit build could fail.
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <sk...@linuxfoundation.org>
---
tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py b/tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py
index 7f9ae55fd6d5..db86a396ed33 100755
--- a/tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py
+++ b/tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py
@@ -583,7 +583,7 @@ def main(argv: Sequence[str]) -> None:
'the options in .kunitconfig')
add_common_opts(config_parser)
- build_parser = subparser.add_parser('build', help='Builds a kernel with
KUnit tests')
+ build_parser = subparser.add_parser('build', help='Builds a kernel with
KUnit tests. Successful build depends on a clean source tree. Run mrproper to
clean generated artifcats for prior ARCH=foo kernel build. Run 'make ARCH=foo
mrproper')
add_common_opts(build_parser)
add_build_opts(build_parser)
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