linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next] netconsole: selftests: Move netconsole selftests to separate target

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Message-ID: <aXie9VdU4BeF7Z6y@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2026 03:18:47 -0800
From: Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>
To: Andre Carvalho <asantostc@...il.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>, 
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, 
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] netconsole: selftests: Move netconsole
 selftests to separate target

On Sat, Jan 24, 2026 at 06:51:42PM +0000, Andre Carvalho wrote:
> This patch moves netconsole selftests from drivers/net to its own target
> in drivers/net/netconsole.
> 
> This change helps saving some resources from CI since tests in
> drivers/net automatically run against real hardware which are not used
> by netconsole tests as they rely solely on netdevsim.
> 
> lib_netcons.sh is kept under drivers/net/lib since it is also used by
> bonding selftests. Finally, drivers/net config remains unchanged as
> netpoll_basic.py requires netconsole (and does leverage real HW testing).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andre Carvalho <asantostc@...il.com>

Reviewed-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>

Thanks for the patch!
--breno