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| author | Greg Rose <gvrose8192@gmail.com> | 2020-03-11 10:49:17 -0700 |
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| committer | William Tu <u9012063@gmail.com> | 2020-03-19 16:57:11 -0700 |
| commit | 075e1c4967e5872a7c58aebeca34df1dd78b5e23 (patch) | |
| tree | 68acaba775acb78b34dfb28cbc6561df7dc77322 /Documentation/topics | |
| parent | 8c544570cb3a1e09009e2d637cbd7075afc7ed03 (diff) | |
| download | openvswitch-075e1c4967e5872a7c58aebeca34df1dd78b5e23.tar.gz | |
Documentation: Add note about iproute2 requirements for check-kmod
On many systems the check-kmod and check-kernel test suites have
many failures due to the lack of feature support in the older
iproute2 utility packages shipped with those systems. Add a
note indicating that it might be necessary to update the iproute2
utility package in order to fix those errors.
Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gvrose8192@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: William Tu <u9012063@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/topics')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/topics/testing.rst | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/topics/testing.rst b/Documentation/topics/testing.rst index 161e9d442..b9fa94dda 100644 --- a/Documentation/topics/testing.rst +++ b/Documentation/topics/testing.rst @@ -381,6 +381,17 @@ The results of the testsuite are in ``tests/system-kmod-testsuite.dir``. All the features documented under `Unit Tests`_ are available for the kernel datapath testsuite. +.. note:: + Many of the kernel tests are dependent on the utilities present in the + iproute2 package, especially the 'ip' command. If there are many + otherwise unexplained errors it may be necessary to update the iproute2 + package utilities on the system. It is beyond the scope of this + documentation to explain all that is necessary to build and install + an updated iproute2 utilities package. The package is available from + the Linux kernel organization open source git repositories. + + https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shemminger/iproute2.git + .. _testing-static-analysis: Static Code Analysis |