Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] netconsole: selftests: Move netconsole selftests to separate target

From: Breno Leitao <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2026 04:10:18 -0800

Hello Andre,

On Sat, Jan 24, 2026 at 06:51:42PM +0000, Andre Carvalho wrote:
> This patch moves netconsole selftests from drivers/net to its own target
> in drivers/net/netconsole.
> 
> This change helps saving some resources from CI since tests in
> drivers/net automatically run against real hardware which are not used
> by netconsole tests as they rely solely on netdevsim.
> 
> lib_netcons.sh is kept under drivers/net/lib since it is also used by
> bonding selftests. Finally, drivers/net config remains unchanged as
> netpoll_basic.py requires netconsole (and does leverage real HW testing).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andre Carvalho <[email-masked]>

Thanks for the patch. Looking at NIPA, it seems none of the netconsole
test run?

https://netdev.bots.linux.dev/contest.html?pw-n=0&branch=net-next-2026-01-25--06-00
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 92768bceb929..d92927ce87cc 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -18016,7 +18016,7 @@ S:	Maintained
>  F:	Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst
>  F:	drivers/net/netconsole.c
>  F:	tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/lib/sh/lib_netcons.sh
> -F:	tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/netcons\*
> +F:	tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/netconsole/*

I don't think you need * here. The following might be enough.

	F:   tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/netconsole/

> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/Makefile
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/Makefile
> @@ -15,13 +15,6 @@ TEST_PROGS := \
>  	hds.py \
>  	napi_id.py \
>  	napi_threaded.py \
> -	netcons_basic.sh \
> -	netcons_cmdline.sh \
> -	netcons_fragmented_msg.sh \
> -	netcons_overflow.sh \
> -	netcons_resume.sh \
> -	netcons_sysdata.sh \
> -	netcons_torture.sh \
>  	netpoll_basic.py \

That is right, I don't think we want to move netpoll_basic.py, which
is uses netconsole to test netpoll, and we want to run it against real
hardware.

Thanks
--breno