From 075e1c4967e5872a7c58aebeca34df1dd78b5e23 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Greg Rose Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 10:49:17 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: Add note about iproute2 requirements for check-kmod 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 Signed-off-by: William Tu --- Documentation/topics/testing.rst | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/topics/testing.rst b/Documentation/topics/testing.rst index 161e9d442ee..b9fa94ddac4 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