Commit fde662d9 authored by Mauro Carvalho Chehab's avatar Mauro Carvalho Chehab Committed by Shuah Khan
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kselftest.rst: do some adjustments after ReST conversion



Do some minor adjustments after ReST conversion:

- On most documents, we use prepend a "$ " before
  command line arguments;

- Prefer to use :: on the preceding line;

- Split a multi-paragraph description as such.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarShuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
parent 6dff86a3
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@@ -19,15 +19,15 @@ Running the selftests (hotplug tests are run in limited mode)

To build the tests::

    make -C tools/testing/selftests
  $ make -C tools/testing/selftests

To run the tests::

    make -C tools/testing/selftests run_tests
  $ make -C tools/testing/selftests run_tests

To build and run the tests with a single command, use::

    make kselftest
  $ make kselftest

Note that some tests will require root privileges.

@@ -40,11 +40,11 @@ single test to run, or a list of tests to run.

To run only tests targeted for a single subsystem::

    make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=ptrace run_tests
  $ make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=ptrace run_tests

You can specify multiple tests to build and run::

    make TARGETS="size timers" kselftest
  $  make TARGETS="size timers" kselftest

See the top-level tools/testing/selftests/Makefile for the list of all
possible targets.
@@ -55,11 +55,11 @@ Running the full range hotplug selftests

To build the hotplug tests::

    make -C tools/testing/selftests hotplug
  $ make -C tools/testing/selftests hotplug

To run the hotplug tests::

    make -C tools/testing/selftests run_hotplug
  $ make -C tools/testing/selftests run_hotplug

Note that some tests will require root privileges.

@@ -73,13 +73,13 @@ location.

To install selftests in default location::

    cd tools/testing/selftests
    ./kselftest_install.sh
   $ cd tools/testing/selftests
   $ ./kselftest_install.sh

To install selftests in a user specified location::

    cd tools/testing/selftests
    ./kselftest_install.sh install_dir
   $ cd tools/testing/selftests
   $ ./kselftest_install.sh install_dir

Running installed selftests
===========================
@@ -88,12 +88,10 @@ Kselftest install as well as the Kselftest tarball provide a script
named "run_kselftest.sh" to run the tests.

You can simply do the following to run the installed Kselftests. Please
note some tests will require root privileges.
note some tests will require root privileges::

::

    cd kselftest
    ./run_kselftest.sh
   $ cd kselftest
   $ ./run_kselftest.sh

Contributing new tests
======================
@@ -114,8 +112,10 @@ Contributing new tests (details)

 * Use TEST_GEN_XXX if such binaries or files are generated during
   compiling.

   TEST_PROGS, TEST_GEN_PROGS mean it is the excutable tested by
   default.

   TEST_PROGS_EXTENDED, TEST_GEN_PROGS_EXTENDED mean it is the
   executable which is not tested by default.
   TEST_FILES, TEST_GEN_FILES mean it is the file which is used by