linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mptcp: MPTCP_KUNIT_TESTS should depend on MPTCP instead of selecting it

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Date:   Mon, 19 Oct 2020 22:38:49 +0200
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@...sares.net>
Cc:     Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@...ux.intel.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, mptcp@...ts.01.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mptcp: MPTCP_KUNIT_TESTS should depend on MPTCP instead
 of selecting it

Hi Matthieu,

On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 5:47 PM Matthieu Baerts
<matthieu.baerts@...sares.net> wrote:
> On 19/10/2020 13:32, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > MPTCP_KUNIT_TESTS selects MPTCP, thus enabling an optional feature the
> > user may not want to enable.  Fix this by making the test depend on
> > MPTCP instead.
>
> I think the initial intension was to select MPTCP to have an easy way to
> enable all KUnit tests. We imitated what was and is still done in
> fs/ext4/Kconfig.
>
> But it probably makes sense to depend on MPTCP instead of selecting it.
> So that's fine for me. But then please also send a patch to ext4
> maintainer to do the same there.

Thanks, good point.  I didn't notice, as I did have ext4 enabled anyway.
Will send a patch for ext4.  Looks like ext4 and MPTCP where the only
test modules selecting their dependencies.

> Reviewed-by: Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@...sares.net>

Thanks!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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