linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/2 RESEND] update kselftest framework to check for required configs

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Message-ID: <083e94e0-dc37-4cdd-94a3-db258635a684@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 09:51:23 -0700
From: Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Siddharth Menon <simeddon@...il.com>, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
 shuah@...nel.org
Cc: pmladek@...e.com, mbenes@...e.cz, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/2 RESEND] update kselftest framework to check for
 required configs

On 2/26/25 22:29, Siddharth Menon wrote:
> Currently, kselftests does not have a generalised mechanism to skip
> compilation and run tests when required kernel configuration options
> are disabled.

Skipping compile by default is not what we want to do. Tests are
supposed to compile and run even when config options are not enabled.

There is something wrong if the test doesn't compile when a config
option isn't enabled in the kernel.

> 
> This patch series adresses this issue by checking whether all required
> configs from selftest/<test>/config are enabled in the current kernel
> 
> Siddharth Menon (2):
>    selftests: Introduce script to validate required dependencies
>    selftests/lib.mk: Introduce check to validate required dependencies
> 
>   .../testing/selftests/check_kselftest_deps.pl | 170 ++++++++++++++++++
>   tools/testing/selftests/lib.mk                |  15 +-
>   2 files changed, 183 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>   create mode 100755 tools/testing/selftests/check_kselftest_deps.pl
> 

thanks,
-- Shuah