Commit a997a703 authored by Anders Roxell's avatar Anders Roxell Committed by Jonathan Corbet

doc: dev-tools: kselftest.rst: update contributing new tests

Add a description that the kernel headers should be used as far as it is
possible and then the system headers.
Signed-off-by: default avatarAnders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarShuah Khan (Samsung OSG) <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent 6dddd7a7
...@@ -151,6 +151,11 @@ Contributing new tests (details) ...@@ -151,6 +151,11 @@ Contributing new tests (details)
TEST_FILES, TEST_GEN_FILES mean it is the file which is used by TEST_FILES, TEST_GEN_FILES mean it is the file which is used by
test. test.
* First use the headers inside the kernel source and/or git repo, and then the
system headers. Headers for the kernel release as opposed to headers
installed by the distro on the system should be the primary focus to be able
to find regressions.
Test Harness Test Harness
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