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@@ -395,11 +395,12 @@ up a bit. The `tests/reltest <https://github.com/ulfalizer/Kconfiglib/blob/master/tests/reltest>`_ script runs the test suite and all the example scripts for both Python 2 and Python 3, verifying that everything works. -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 -(see `this commit <https://github.com/ulfalizer/Kconfiglib/commit/35ea8d5f1d63bdc9f8642f5ce4445e8f7c914385>`_). -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. +Rarely, the output from the C tools is changed slightly (most recently due to a +`change <https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-kbuild/msg17074.html>`_ I added). +If you get test suite failures, try running the test suite again against the +`linux-next tree <https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/linux-next.html>`_, +which has all the latest changes. I will make it clear if any +non-backwards-compatible changes appear. 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 |