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author | Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@igalia.com> | 2025-01-23 09:32:46 -0300 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2025-02-20 15:32:25 +0100 |
commit | 6aa9826330539abcfd3435de93b45cb506e7b86d (patch) | |
tree | a21a618a07cfc123657520fdb780fb6da35b59ce /lib/Kconfig.debug | |
parent | d9406677428e9234ea62bb2d2f5e996d1b777760 (diff) |
char: misc: improve testing Kconfig description
Describe that it tests the miscdevice API and include the usual disclaimer
about KUnit not being fit for production kernels.
While at it, also fix KUnit capitalization.
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@igalia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250123123249.4081674-2-cascardo@igalia.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/Kconfig.debug')
-rw-r--r-- | lib/Kconfig.debug | 15 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 1af972a92d06..76343a203d74 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -2479,13 +2479,20 @@ config TEST_IDA tristate "Perform selftest on IDA functions" config TEST_MISC_MINOR - tristate "Basic misc minor Kunit test" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS + tristate "miscdevice KUnit test" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS depends on KUNIT default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS help - Kunit test for the misc minor. - It tests misc minor functions for dynamic and misc dynamic minor. - This include misc_xxx functions + Kunit test for miscdevice API, specially its behavior in respect to + static and dynamic minor numbers. + + KUnit tests run during boot and output the results to the debug log + in TAP format (https://testanything.org/). Only useful for kernel devs + running the KUnit test harness, and not intended for inclusion into a + production build. + + For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general please refer + to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/. If unsure, say N. |