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| author | Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@gmail.com> | 2017-11-07 12:40:04 +0100 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2017-11-07 12:40:04 +0100 |
| commit | b028c41014921cde824ed3b3208143e2369f9c63 (patch) | |
| tree | e09da95c20fc274ed5992203ecaf11a6066f0016 | |
| parent | a1ae4e38503eb8a55712b6cd1f9d958035b0fd38 (diff) | |
Clean up the test suite section a bit more
| -rw-r--r-- | README.rst | 22 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 10 deletions
@@ -313,19 +313,20 @@ The test suite is run with $ python(3) Kconfiglib/testsuite.py -(`pypy <http://pypy.org>`_ works too, and is much speedier for everything except ``allnoconfig.py``/``allnoconfig_simpler.py``/``allyesconfig.py``, where it doesn't have time to warm up since -the scripts are run via ``make scriptconfig``.) +`pypy <http://pypy.org>`_ works too, and is much speedier for everything except ``allnoconfig.py``/``allnoconfig_simpler.py``/``allyesconfig.py``, where it doesn't have time to warm up since +the scripts are run via ``make scriptconfig``. -The test suite must be run from the top-level kernel directory, and requires that the git -repository has been cloned into it and that the makefile patch has been applied. +The test suite must be run from the top-level kernel directory. It requires that the +Kconfiglib git repository has been cloned into it and that the makefile patch has been applied. **NOTE: The test suite overwrites .config in the kernel root, so make sure to back it up.** The test suite consists of a set of selftests and a set of compatibility tests that -compare (character for character) configurations generated by Kconfiglib with -configurations generated by ``scripts/kconfig/conf`` for a number of cases. You -might want to use the "speedy" option; see -`testsuite.py <https://github.com/ulfalizer/Kconfiglib/blob/master/testsuite.py>`_. +compare configurations generated by Kconfiglib with +configurations generated by the C tools, for a number of cases. See +`testsuite.py <https://github.com/ulfalizer/Kconfiglib/blob/master/testsuite.py>`_ +for the available options. You might want to use the "speedy" option to speed things +up a bit. The test suite might fail for a few configurations for kernels older than April 2016, when a fix was added to Kconfig that's also mirrored in Kconfiglib @@ -333,8 +334,9 @@ when a fix was added to Kconfig that's also mirrored in Kconfiglib This is harmless, and only counts as a fail since the test suite compares literal output from the kconfig version that's bundled with the kernel. -A lot of the time is spent waiting around for ``make`` and the C utilities (which need to reparse all the -Kconfig files for each defconfig test). Adding some multiprocessing to the test suite would make sense. +A lot of time is spent waiting around for ``make`` and the C utilities (which need to reparse all the +Kconfig files for each defconfig test). Adding some multiprocessing to the test suite would make sense +too. Notes ----- |