Re: [PATCH v3] Documentation: dev-tools: Add Testing Overview

From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Thu Apr 15 2021 - 16:53:47 EST


David Gow <davidgow@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> The kernel now has a number of testing and debugging tools, and we've
> seen a bit of confusion about what the differences between them are.
>
> Add a basic documentation outlining the testing tools, when to use each,
> and how they interact.
>
> This is a pretty quick overview rather than the idealised "kernel
> testing guide" that'd probably be optimal, but given the number of times
> questions like "When do you use KUnit and when do you use Kselftest?"
> are being asked, it seemed worth at least having something. Hopefully
> this can form the basis for more detailed documentation later.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Gow <davidgow@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Thanks again. Assuming no-one has any objections, I think this is good
> to go.

I've applied it after fixing the conflict with docs-next.

Thanks,

jon