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

[Andrew Lunn]

On Sat, Jun 27, 2026 at 02:30:28PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> 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.

The counter example is the ksft_disruptive() decorator.

Pythons own unittest framework makes use of decorators to skip
tests. Its the Pythonic way.

	Andrew