Em Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:27:12 -0600
Shuah Khan <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu:
> 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 <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 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)
>
Would be better instead to detect if the last build was not done
by kunit.py and call "make mrproper" inside kunit.py?
Thanks,
Mauro
