Re: [PATCH] Documentation: kunit: Update Kconfig parts for KUNIT's module support

From: Marco Elver
Date: Mon Oct 12 2020 - 07:28:56 EST


On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 at 12:54, 'SeongJae Park' via KUnit Development
<kunit-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: SeongJae Park <sjpark@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> If 'CONFIG_KUNIT=m', letting kunit tests that do not support loadable
> module build depends on 'KUNIT' instead of 'KUNIT=y' result in compile
> errors. This commit updates the document for this.
>
> Fixes: 9fe124bf1b77 ("kunit: allow kunit to be loaded as a module")
> Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/start.rst | 2 +-
> Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst | 5 +++++
> 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/start.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/start.rst
> index d23385e3e159..454f307813ea 100644
> --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/start.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/start.rst
> @@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ Now add the following to ``drivers/misc/Kconfig``:
>
> config MISC_EXAMPLE_TEST
> bool "Test for my example"
> - depends on MISC_EXAMPLE && KUNIT
> + depends on MISC_EXAMPLE && KUNIT=y
>
> and the following to ``drivers/misc/Makefile``:
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst
> index 3c3fe8b5fecc..410380fc7fb4 100644
> --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst
> @@ -556,6 +556,11 @@ Once the kernel is built and installed, a simple
>
> ...will run the tests.
>
> +.. note::
> + Note that you should make your test depends on ``KUNIT=y`` in Kcofig if the
> + test does not support module build. Otherwise, it will trigger compile
> + errors if ``CONFIG_KUNIT`` is ``m``.

s/Kcofig/Kconfig/

> Writing new tests for other architectures
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>
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