[PATCH v2] kselftest: kselftest documentation improvement

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Suggested patch solves two issues:

1) Currently documentation is unclear whether `make kselftest` should
be run before or after kernel was installed and booted. `make help`
gives a clear answer on that: "kselftest - Build and run kernel selftest
(run as root). Build, install, and boot kernel before running kselftest
on it."

2) Documentation states that `make kselftest` executes "unit" tests.
Technically it's not a _unit_ test if it requires to install an
application first. It's either integration or system test. To not to
confuse a user I suggest not to use a word "unit".

Signed-off-by: Aleksander Alekseev <afiskon@xxxxxxxxx>
---
v2:
- same as v1 but in right format
---
 Documentation/kselftest.txt | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/kselftest.txt b/Documentation/kselftest.txt
index 979eaca..dc1c692 100644
--- a/Documentation/kselftest.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kselftest.txt
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 Linux Kernel Selftests
 
 The kernel contains a set of "self tests" under the tools/testing/selftests/
-directory. These are intended to be small unit tests to exercise individual
-code paths in the kernel.
+directory. These are intended to be small tests to exercise individual code
+paths in the kernel. User supposed to run these tests after building,
+installing and booting a kernel.
 
 On some systems, hot-plug tests could hang forever waiting for cpu and
 memory to be ready to be offlined. A special hot-plug target is created
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2.7.4
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