Re: [PATCH net-next] Documentation: networking: Add a test plan for ethtool pause validation

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Sat, 27 Jun 2026 07:34:31 +0200 Maxime Chevallier wrote:
> > This is very far from what existing python tests do in netdev.  
> 
> We can probably drop the class, as it is with this discussion, it's merely a way
> to regroup doc common to similar tests. The rest really is the usual set of
> ksft funcs you can feed to the run function, with a set of ksft_ethtool_*
> annotators for generic checks.

The common way of checking prereqs in the tests is to call a function
called require_xyz() which then raises a skip. At a quick glance - the
rss_api and xdp_metadata are good tests to get a sense of the usual format.