Re: [PATCH] selftests: net: move fragment forwarding/config up a level

From: Shuah Khan
Date: Thu Aug 23 2018 - 13:09:41 EST


On 08/22/2018 12:45 AM, Ido Schimmel wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 01:41:54PM -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
>> On 08/21/2018 12:56 PM, Ido Schimmel wrote:
>>> On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 06:12:12PM +0200, Anders Roxell wrote:
>>>> 'make kselftest-merge' assumes that the config files for the tests are
>>>> located under the 'main' tet dir, like tools/testing/selftests/net/ and
>>>> not in a subdir to net.
>>>
>>> The tests under tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/ aren't executed
>>> as part of the Makefile. The config file is there mainly so that people
>>> will know which config options they need in order to run the tests.
>>>
>>> The tests can be added to the Makefile, but some of them take a few
>>> minutes to complete which is probably against "Don't take too long;"
>>> mentioned in Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst.
>>>
>>
>> I don't see any reason why these shouldn't be added. With the number of
>> tests that get run by default, time has gone up. The goal is to run more
>> tests not less. There are some stress/destructive tests that continue to
>> be left out of the Makefile.
>
> Thanks for clarifying. I'll add the tests.
>

Great. This change to move config up one level looks good to me. Dave takes net
selftest patches through net tree usually. So I will leave this up to take it
through his process.

Acked-by: Shuah Khan (Samsung OSG) <shuah@xxxxxxxxxx>

thanks,
-- Shuah