On Thu Sep 24, 2026 at 4:06 AM -03, Eduard Zingerman wrote: > On Tue, 2026-09-22 at 15:31 -0300, Ricardo B. Marlière (SUSE) wrote: >> On Mon Sep 21, 2026 at 6:04 PM -03, Eduard Zingerman wrote: >> > On Mon, 2026-09-21 at 14:40 -0600, Nico Pache (Red Hat) wrote: >> > >> > ... >> > >> > > Given your series was defferred, and there is a "rewrite" coming, what >> > > would >> > > be the best approach to working together (between us three) to get these >> > > fixes in that series too. >> > >> > The, "rewrite", as you call it, had landed today. >> > So the series in question can be re-spun. >> > Regarding your patch on top of it, it appears you can just post is >> > separately. >> > However, I am inclined to be confrontational towards changes like this one. >> > The purpose of the selftests makefile is to run selftests as appropriate >> > for current tip of the kernel tree using a very specific kernel >> > configuration. >> >> Ideally, if a Kconfig symbol is needed and the kernel under test does not >> have it, tests are skipped. But with BPF they were simply not built, >> rendering the tests useless for anything other than in-tree vmlinux with >> tools/selftests/bpf/config*. >> >> > Main users of this makefile are BPF developers and BPF CI. >> >> But they shouldn't be the *only* ones, IMHO. Enabling distros to build and >> run the tests is also valuable to catch regressions in their kernels, don't >> you think? >> >> > Support for distros customizing the makefile is a non-goal. >> > The "PERMISSIVE" change done enough damage already. >> >> It's ugly, I agree, but what damage has it caused? I see that it's going to >> be reverted anyway, but I would appreciate if you could elaborate. > > It's the first time I see a makefile that builds stuff not fully but > 90% of it and returns success. The damage is the need to maintain it > going forward that already cost some time.
Sure, that's fair. > > Do you have a list of kernel configs you had issues with? So, for openSUSE Tumbleweed (x86_64) specifically these are the ones: - PACKET - NF_CONNTRACK - NF_NAT - NF_CONNTRACK_MARK - VXLAN - XFRM_USER I attached the details. Thanks!
bpf-allnoconfig.sh
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bpf-tumbleweed.sh
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