[PATCH net-next v1 1/1] net: selftest: provide option to disable generic selftests

Oleksij Rempel o.rempel at pengutronix.de
Fri Apr 30 10:53:08 BST 2021


Some systems may need to disable selftests to reduce kernel size or for
some policy reasons. This patch provide option to disable generic selftests.

Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert at linux-m68k.org>
Fixes: 3e1e58d64c3d ("net: add generic selftest support")
Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel at pengutronix.de>
---
 net/Kconfig | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/Kconfig b/net/Kconfig
index f5ee7c65e6b4..dac98c73fcd8 100644
--- a/net/Kconfig
+++ b/net/Kconfig
@@ -431,7 +431,12 @@ config SOCK_VALIDATE_XMIT
 
 config NET_SELFTESTS
 	def_tristate PHYLIB
+	prompt "Support for generic selftests"
 	depends on PHYLIB && INET
+	help
+	  These selftests are build automatically if any driver with generic
+	  selftests support is enabled. This option can be used to disable
+	  selftests to reduce kernel size.
 
 config NET_SOCK_MSG
 	bool
-- 
2.29.2




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