From: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
To: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: "Mauro Carvalho Chehab" <mchehab@kernel.org>,
"Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>,
"Shuah Khan" <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Randy Dunlap" <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
"Nathan Chancellor" <nathan@kernel.org>,
"Nicolas Schier" <nsc@kernel.org>,
"Miguel Ojeda" <ojeda@kernel.org>, "Gary Guo" <gary@garyguo.net>,
"Maximilian Huber" <maximilian.huber@tngtech.com>,
"Thomas Weißschuh" <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>,
"Luis Augenstein" <luis.augenstein@tngtech.com>,
"Masahiro Yamada" <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
"Andrew Jones" <andrew.jones@linux.dev>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: Makefile: Add a testdocs target for the documentation unit tests
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:54:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aqucmDHFYxH1s4H6@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260916184107.i.183-kees@kernel.org>
On Wed, Sep 16, 2026 at 11:41:11AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> tools/unittests/run.py discovers and runs the unit tests there (which
> are primarily documentation tools), but nothing in the build calls it,
> so the tests are only run by whoever remembers that the script is there.
>
> Give it a target, next to the other checks that need no Sphinx. The name
> ends in "docs", so it matches the "%docs" pattern already in
> no-dot-config-targets and runs without a configured tree, and it sets
> PYTHONPYCACHEPREFIX as the other Python targets here do, to keep
> __pycache__ directories out of the source tree.
>
> $ make testdocs
> ...
> Ran 121 tests
Very nice! Thanks!
> with "make dochelp" listing it between refcheckdocs and cleandocs.
>
> Tested with GNU Make 4.4.1 and Python 3.14.7, on a tree with no .config,
> where it ran 121 tests and left no __pycache__ behind.
>
> Assisted-by: LLM
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-17 7:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-16 18:41 [PATCH] docs: Makefile: Add a testdocs target for the documentation unit tests Kees Cook
2026-09-16 20:53 ` Randy Dunlap
2026-09-17 6:38 ` Nicolas Schier
2026-09-17 7:54 ` Breno Leitao [this message]
2026-09-26 15:27 ` Jonathan Corbet
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