[PATCH v1] selftests: Use optional USERCFLAGS and USERLDFLAGS

[Shuah Khan]

On 10/20/22 08:17, Mickaël Salaün wrote:
> Hi Shuah, what do you think about this patch?
> 

Thanks for the ping.

> On 09/09/2022 12:39, Mickaël Salaün wrote:
>> This change enables to extend CFLAGS and LDFLAGS from command line, e.g.
>> to extend compiler checks: make USERCFLAGS=-Werror USERLDFLAGS=-static
>>
>> USERCFLAGS and USERLDFLAGS are documented in
>> Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst and Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst
>>
>> This should be backported (down to 5.10) to improve previous kernel
>> versions testing as well.
>>
>> Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan at linuxfoundation.org>
>> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
>> Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic at digikod.net>
>> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220909103901.1503436-1-mic@digikod.net
>> ---
>>   tools/testing/selftests/lib.mk | 5 +++++
>>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/lib.mk b/tools/testing/selftests/lib.mk
>> index d44c72b3abe3..da47a0257165 100644
>> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/lib.mk
>> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/lib.mk
>> @@ -119,6 +119,11 @@ endef
>>   clean:
>>       $(CLEAN)
>> +# Enables to extend CFLAGS and LDFLAGS from command line, e.g.
>> +# make USERCFLAGS=-Werror USERLDFLAGS=-static
>> +CFLAGS += $(USERCFLAGS)
>> +LDFLAGS += $(USERLDFLAGS)
>> +
>>   # When make O= with kselftest target from main level
>>   # the following aren't defined.
>>   #
>>
>> base-commit: 7e18e42e4b280c85b76967a9106a13ca61c16179

Sorry for the delay. Looks good to me. I will apply to next to get
some soak time and get this into 6.2.

thanks,
-- Shuah