Subject: Re: [PATCH] testsuite: Handle large number of kernel options

From: Luca Boccassi <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 12:02:51 +0100

On Wed, 2018-08-22 at 10:31 +0200, Stefan Bader wrote:
> Once there are more than a certain number of kernel config options
> set (this happened for us with kernel 4.17), the method of passing
> those as command line arguments exceeds the maximum number of
> arguments the shell supports. This causes the whole testsuite to
> fail.
> Instead, create a temporary file and modify its contents so that
> the config option variables are exported. Then this file can be
> sourced in before running the tests.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  testsuite/Makefile | 16 +++++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/testsuite/Makefile b/testsuite/Makefile
> index 8fcbc55..f9f3b19 100644

Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <[email-masked]>

Looks good to me, thanks.

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Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi