On Wed, Feb 18, 2026 at 7:18 AM Joe Lawrence <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2026 at 11:29:13AM -0800, Song Liu wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2026 at 8:07 AM Joe Lawrence <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > I guess we still need a short commit message. > > > > Heh, checkpatch complained, but I didn't think such a trivial change > needed a full body :) > > > Could you please share the patch that needs this change? > > > > Sorry I don't have a specific patch or repro for this one. I hit this > during one of my -T, -T -S 2 short-circuiting testing runs. I got an > error like this: > > error: klp-build: missing livepatch-cmdline-string.o for > tools/testing/selftests/klp-build/artifacts/full-virtme-ng/cmdline-string/livepatch-cmdline-string.ko > > to which I wondered why are we even looking for changed kernel objects > in tools/ ? That directory may be stuffed with other weird stuff, a > combination of user-space and kernel-test .o's, so why bother? > > I can drop this one until it becomes something required.
I don't have a strong preference either way. I was more curious about the test case that triggered this. Thanks, Song
