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Message-ID: <20240508175013.1686e04e@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 8 May 2024 17:50:13 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@...nvpn.net>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, Sergey Ryazanov <ryazanov.s.a@...il.com>, Paolo
Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Andrew Lunn
<andrew@...n.ch>, Esben Haabendal <esben@...nix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 24/24] testing/selftest: add test tool and
scripts for ovpn module
On Wed, 8 May 2024 11:51:46 +0200 Antonio Quartulli wrote:
> >> +TEST_GEN_PROGS_EXTENDED = ovpn-cli
> >
> > TEST_GEN_FILES - it's not a test at all, AFAICT.
>
> This binary is just a helper and it is used by the scripts below.
>
> I only need it to be built before executing the run.sh script.
>
> Isn't this the right VARIABLE to use for the purpose?
I don't think so, but the variables are pretty confusing I could be
wrong. My understanding is that TEST_GEN_PROGS_EXTENDED is for tests.
But tests which you don't want to run as unit tests. Like performance
tests, or some slow tests I guess. TEST_GEN_FILES is for building
dependencies and tools which are themselves not tests.
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