On Thu 2024-12-05 17:17:55, Siddharth Menon wrote:
Update documentation to explain the TEST_CONFIG_DEPS flag in lib.mk. TEST_CONFIG_DEPS is used to validate the presence of required config flags specified in the selftest makefile before compiling or running a test.
Signed-off-by: Siddharth Menon simeddon@gmail.com
Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst index fdb1df86783a..e816b282363f 100644 --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst @@ -301,6 +301,9 @@ Contributing new tests (details) e.g: tools/testing/selftests/android/config
- Use TEST_CONFIG_DEPS to specify required config options to be enabled
- before a test is allowed to run or compile.
- Create a .gitignore file inside test directory and add all generated objects in it.
It might be a matter of taste. It is a chicken & egg problem. I personally find it weird to document something which does not exist yet.
Please, either update the documentation together with the code or later :-)
Best Regards, Petr
PS: I haven't got this mail. I have got only 2nd and 3rd patch. I prefer to see the entire patchset. I suggest to always send all patches to the same list of people and mailing lists.