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 <gvrose8...@gmail.com> --- Documentation/topics/testing.rst | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/topics/testing.rst b/Documentation/topics/testing.rst index 161e9d4..b9fa94d 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 -- 1.8.3.1 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list d...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
