On Fri, 14 Jun 2024 11:32:40 +0000 Abhinav Jain wrote:
> This patch addresses the TODO (add non fixed feature on/off check).
> I have tested it manually on my system after making changes as suggested
> in v1 and v2 linked below for reference.
> Patch now restores the features being tested to their initial state.
Can you separate the features on/off and auto-adding veth into two
commits/patches? Then send them as a series?
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/netdevice.sh
> b/tools/testing/selftests/net/netdevice.sh
> index e3afcb424710..d937d39dda6a 100755
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/netdevice.sh
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/netdevice.sh
> @@ -104,6 +104,20 @@ kci_netdev_ethtool()
> {
> netdev=$1
>
> + #check if netdev is provided as an argument
> + if [ -z "$netdev" ]; then
> + echo "No network device provided, creating a veth pair"
> + ip link add veth0 type veth peer name veth1
> + netdev="veth0"
> + veth_created=1
> + else
> + #check if the provided netdev exists
> + if ! ip link show "$netdev" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
> + echo "Network device $netdev does not exist."
> + return 1
> + fi
> + fi
I don't think this will work, since the function won't get called at
all if there is no netdev. You need to do the auto-adding around the
while read netdev
loop.
To test locally you can use network namespaces, or build and boot a
network-less kernel using vng:
https://github.com/linux-netdev/nipa/wiki/How-to-run-netdev-selftests-CI-style
