| Message ID | 1583948957-3571-1-git-send-email-gvrose8192@gmail.com |
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| State | Accepted |
| Commit | 075e1c4967e5872a7c58aebeca34df1dd78b5e23 |
| Headers | show |
| Series | [ovs-dev] Documentation: Add note about iproute2 requirements for check-kmod | expand |
On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 10:49 AM Greg Rose <gvrose8192@gmail.com> wrote: > > On many systems the check-kmod and check-kernel test suites have > many failures due to the lack of feature support in the older > iproute2 utility packages shipped with those systems. Add a > note indicating that it might be necessary to update the iproute2 > utility package in order to fix those errors. > > Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gvrose8192@gmail.com> > --- LGTM Acked-by: William Tu <u9012063@gmail.com>
On 3/11/2020 10:52 AM, William Tu wrote: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 10:49 AM Greg Rose <gvrose8192@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On many systems the check-kmod and check-kernel test suites have >> many failures due to the lack of feature support in the older >> iproute2 utility packages shipped with those systems. Add a >> note indicating that it might be necessary to update the iproute2 >> utility package in order to fix those errors. >> >> Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gvrose8192@gmail.com> >> --- > > LGTM > Acked-by: William Tu <u9012063@gmail.com> > Back to the top.
On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 10:49:17AM -0700, Greg Rose wrote: > On many systems the check-kmod and check-kernel test suites have > many failures due to the lack of feature support in the older > iproute2 utility packages shipped with those systems. Add a > note indicating that it might be necessary to update the iproute2 > utility package in order to fix those errors. > > Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gvrose8192@gmail.com> > --- Applied to master, thanks. William
diff --git a/Documentation/topics/testing.rst b/Documentation/topics/testing.rst index 161e9d4..b9fa94d 100644 --- a/Documentation/topics/testing.rst +++ b/Documentation/topics/testing.rst @@ -381,6 +381,17 @@ The results of the testsuite are in ``tests/system-kmod-testsuite.dir``. All the features documented under `Unit Tests`_ are available for the kernel datapath testsuite. +.. note:: + Many of the kernel tests are dependent on the utilities present in the + iproute2 package, especially the 'ip' command. If there are many + otherwise unexplained errors it may be necessary to update the iproute2 + package utilities on the system. It is beyond the scope of this + documentation to explain all that is necessary to build and install + an updated iproute2 utilities package. The package is available from + the Linux kernel organization open source git repositories. + + https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shemminger/iproute2.git + .. _testing-static-analysis: Static Code Analysis
On many systems the check-kmod and check-kernel test suites have many failures due to the lack of feature support in the older iproute2 utility packages shipped with those systems. Add a note indicating that it might be necessary to update the iproute2 utility package in order to fix those errors. Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gvrose8192@gmail.com> --- Documentation/topics/testing.rst | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)