Re: [PATCH v4] Add recipe for linux kselftest

[Anton Mikanovich <amikan@ilbers.de>]

02.11.2020 10:25, Vijai Kumar K wrote:
> Kselftest is a set of unit and regression tests under the
> tools/testing/selftests/ directory of the Linux kernel. These are used
> for testing individual code paths in the kernel.
>
> Kselftest is not debianized and is not available as part of the official
> Debian repository.
>
> This patch provides a recipe to build kselftest from the linux source of
> your choice.
>
> Sometimes developers/testers tend to use the latest version of selftests
> from Linux upstream stable releases for testing and hence the need for a
> separate recipe instead of being part of the linux recipe of ISAR.
>
> Some kselftest test cases build are known to break in certain linux
> versions, this has to be addressed upstream. Right now kselftest build
> succeeds even if atleast one of the testcase case build succeeds.
>
> You can change that by setting KSELFTEST_FORCE_TARGETS=1.
>
> TARGETS, TARGETS_SKIP, FORCE_TARGETS can be set using the appropriate
> KSELFTEST_* recipe variable.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vijai Kumar K <Vijaikumar_Kanagarajan@mentor.com>

Applied to next, thanks.

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