Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 May 2019 09:09:28 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH net-next 00/18] net: stmmac: Improvements and Selftests | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Jose Abreu <Jose.Abreu@synopsys.com> Date: Thu, 23 May 2019 09:36:50 +0200
> [ Thanks to the introducion of selftests this series ended up being a misc > of improvements and the selftests additions per-se. ] > > This introduces selftests support in stmmac driver. We add 9 basic sanity > checks and MAC loopback support for all cores within the driver. This way > more tests can easily be added in the future and can be run in virtually > any MAC/GMAC/QoS/XGMAC platform. > > Having this we can find regressions and missing features in the driver > while at the same time we can check if the IP is correctly working. > > We have been using this for some time now and I do have more tests to > submit in the feature. My experience is that although writing the tests > adds more development time, the gain results are obvious. > > I let this feature optional within the driver under a Kconfig option.
Series applied.
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