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

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Message-ID: <20260126162800.10d5601d@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:28:00 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>
Cc: Andre Carvalho <asantostc@...il.com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
 Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>, "David S. Miller"
 <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, 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 Mon, 26 Jan 2026 04:10:18 -0800 Breno Leitao wrote:
> 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>  
> 
> Thanks for the patch. Looking at NIPA, it seems none of the netconsole
> test run?
> 
> https://netdev.bots.linux.dev/contest.html?pw-n=0&branch=net-next-2026-01-25--06-00

Do you mean after the patch? I'll have to manually add it to some VM
config (presumably the SW drv-net one). I'll do it after patch is
merged. (Remind me if I forget? ;))