Re: [PATCH net-next 3/3] selftests: ethtool: Introduce ethernet PHY selftests on netdevsim

From: Simon Horman
Date: Fri Jul 04 2025 - 09:20:39 EST


On Wed, Jul 02, 2025 at 10:28:05AM +0200, Maxime Chevallier wrote:
> Now that netdevsim supports PHY device simulation, we can start writing
> some tests to cover a little bit all PHY-related ethtool commands.
>
> So far we only test the basic use of "ethtool --show-phys", with :
> - A simple command to get a PHY we just added
> - A DUMP command listing PHYs on multiple netdevsim instances
> - A Filtered DUMP command listing all PHYs on a netdevsim
>
> Introduce some helpers to create netdevsim PHYs, and a new test file.
>
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Maxime,

We have recently started running shellcheck as part of our CI (NIPA).
Could you do so for the scripts added and modified by this patch?

> ---
> .../selftests/drivers/net/netdevsim/config | 1 +
> .../drivers/net/netdevsim/ethtool-common.sh | 15 +++++
> .../drivers/net/netdevsim/ethtool-phy.sh | 64 +++++++++++++++++++

Should ethtool-phy.sh be added to TEST_PROGS the Makefile in
the same directory?

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