Messages in this thread | | | From | Martin Blumenstingl <> | Date | Sat, 9 Jul 2022 00:28:51 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] selftests: forwarding: Install two missing tests |
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Hi Vladimir,
On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 12:25 AM Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com> wrote: > > Hi Martin, > > On Thu, Jul 07, 2022 at 03:55:30PM +0200, Martin Blumenstingl wrote: > > For some distributions (e.g. OpenWrt) we don't want to rely on rsync > > to copy the tests to the target as some extra dependencies need to be > > installed. The Makefile in tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding > > already installs most of the tests. > > > > This series adds the two missing tests to the list of installed tests. > > That way a downstream distribution can build a package using this > > Makefile (and add dependencies there as needed). > > Just for future reference, the netdev process is to mark patch sets such > as this one with "PATCH net" since they fix a packaging problem with an > rc kernel. There's more information about this in > Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst. noted
> Do we need to create a Makefile for the selftests symlinked by DSA in > tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/dsa/, for the symlinks to be > installed, or how do you see this? Yes, we should have a Makefile there as well (IMO). I'll send a patch for this.
> The reason why I created the symlinks was to make use of the custom > forwarding.config provided there, and also to reduce the clutter a bit > and only focus on the selftests I felt were relevant for DSA for now. Makes sense, I'll make sure that this one is installed by the Makefile as well
Best regards, Martin
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