From 0c6464ea783436b09379ee9e2c613e5d0d1c61d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ulf Magnusson Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 10:12:56 +0200 Subject: Add note on running tests with older kernls --- README.md | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 14201d3..f61dafc 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -91,6 +91,11 @@ 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](testsuite.py). +The test suite might fail for a few configurations for kernels older than April 2006, +when a fix was added to Kconfig that's also mirrored in Kconfiglib (see 35ea8d5). +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. + Kconfiglib is much faster than the test suite would indicate. Most of the time is spent waiting around for `make` or the C utilities. Adding some multiprocessing to the test suite would make sense. -- cgit v1.2.3