Re: [PATCH] mptcp: MPTCP_KUNIT_TESTS should depend on MPTCP instead of selecting it

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Mon Oct 19 2020 - 16:39:04 EST


Hi Matthieu,

On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 5:47 PM Matthieu Baerts
<matthieu.baerts@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 19/10/2020 13:32, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > MPTCP_KUNIT_TESTS selects MPTCP, thus enabling an optional feature the
> > user may not want to enable. Fix this by making the test depend on
> > MPTCP instead.
>
> I think the initial intension was to select MPTCP to have an easy way to
> enable all KUnit tests. We imitated what was and is still done in
> fs/ext4/Kconfig.
>
> But it probably makes sense to depend on MPTCP instead of selecting it.
> So that's fine for me. But then please also send a patch to ext4
> maintainer to do the same there.

Thanks, good point. I didn't notice, as I did have ext4 enabled anyway.
Will send a patch for ext4. Looks like ext4 and MPTCP where the only
test modules selecting their dependencies.

> Reviewed-by: Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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