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> --- v3: - it was made clear that tests aren't intended to be run by "users" 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..54bee77 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. Tests are intended to be run 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 -- 2.7.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kselftest" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
