Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] Documentation: Add note about iproute2 requirements for check-kmod

2020-03-19 Thread William Tu
On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 10:49:17AM -0700, Greg Rose wrote:
> 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 
> ---
Applied to master, thanks.
William

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Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] Documentation: Add note about iproute2 requirements for check-kmod

2020-03-19 Thread Gregory Rose



On 3/11/2020 10:52 AM, William Tu wrote:

On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 10:49 AM Greg Rose  wrote:


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 
---


LGTM
Acked-by: William Tu 



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Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] Documentation: Add note about iproute2 requirements for check-kmod

2020-03-11 Thread William Tu
On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 10:49 AM Greg Rose  wrote:
>
> 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 
> ---

LGTM
Acked-by: William Tu 
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[ovs-dev] [PATCH] Documentation: Add note about iproute2 requirements for check-kmod

2020-03-11 Thread Greg Rose
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 
---
 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

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