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From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 3/6] net: add generic selftest support
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> Thanks for your patch, which is now commit 3e1e58d64c3d0a67 ("net: add
> generic selftest support") upstream.
> 
> > --- a/net/Kconfig
> > +++ b/net/Kconfig
> > @@ -429,6 +429,10 @@ config GRO_CELLS
> >  config SOCK_VALIDATE_XMIT
> >         bool
> >
> > +config NET_SELFTESTS
> > +       def_tristate PHYLIB
> 
> Why does this default to enabled if PHYLIB=y?
> Usually we allow the user to make selftests modular, independent of the
> feature under test, but I may misunderstand the purpose of this test.

Maybe there is a misunderstanding here with 'selftest'. The name page
for ethtool(1) says:

       -t --test
              Executes adapter selftest on the specified network device.  Pos‐
              sible test modes are:

           offline
                  Perform  full set of tests, possibly interrupting normal op‐
                  eration during the tests,

           online Perform limited set of tests, not interrupting normal opera‐
                  tion,

           external_lb
                  Perform  full set of tests, as for offline, and additionally
                  an external-loopback test.

This feature has nothing to do with tools/testing/selftests. It
predates that by decades.

     Andrew