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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Shuah Khan <shuah.kh@samsung.com>
Cc: mmarek@suse.cz, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
	linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] kbuild: kselftest - new make target to build and run kernel selftests
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 17:57:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140807155713.GA1382@ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1407420192-4928-1-git-send-email-shuah.kh@samsung.com>

On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 08:03:12AM -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
> Add a new make target "kselftest" to enable kernel testing. This
> new target builds and runs kernel selftests. Running as root is
> recommended for a complete test run as some tests don't run when
> run by non-root user.

kselftest will run the test - but will not build the kerenl.
That is does not build the kernel is IMO a good thing -
as one may re-run the test while doing work on the kernel, and triggering
a rebuild to re-run the test is not nice.

The changelog + help text needs to be updated to reflect that the kernel is not
built when you use "make kselftest".

On top of this - can you please tell what plans exists to extend this.
When we discussed "devtest" it was said that it would not be a wrapper
for selftests run_tests only, but more was planned to be added.


	Sam

  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-07 15:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-07 14:03 [PATCH v2] kbuild: kselftest - new make target to build and run kernel selftests Shuah Khan
2014-08-07 15:57 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2014-08-07 16:13   ` Shuah Khan

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