Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Jan 2024 17:54:53 +0100 | From | Andrew Lunn <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH net-next v5 07/13] net: ethtool: Introduce a command to list PHYs on an interface |
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> > Another option might be to add PHY support to netdevsim. Add a debugfs > > interface to allow you to create arbitrary PHY topologies? You can > > then even add a test script. > > Sorry for the delayed answer, I just took a few hours to give it a try, > and I was able to spin some very basic PHY support for the netdevsim, > allowing to attach arbitrary instances of fixed_phy devices. I can > therefore use that as a mean of testing the dump operation, I'll try to > include that in the next iteration, that should pave the way for some > testability of more PHY stuff hopefully.
Great that you looked at this.
FYI: Jakub would like to see changes to netdevsim accompanied with self tests making you of the features you add. There is also now a build bot running the self tests against net-next, so these tests should get run quite frequently.
Andrew
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