Re: [PATCH] selftests/vm: enable running select groups of tests
From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Jul 05 2022 - 16:35:01 EST
On Tue, 5 Jul 2022 14:56:05 -0400 Joel Savitz <jsavitz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Add the ability to run one or more groups of vm tests (specified
> by the environment variable TEST_ITEMS). Preserve existing default
> behavior of running all tests when TEST_ITEMS is empty or "default".
What is the reason for this? What's the use case?
And why via the environment rather than via commandline args?