Jakub Kicinski <k...@kernel.org> writes:
> On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 10:53:53 +0200 Petr Machata wrote:
>> >> I can do it, but it's gonna be more pain in setting up those
>> >> TEST_INCLUDES. People will forget. It will be a nuisance.
>> >> I'm thinking of just moving it to net/lib.sh, from forwarding.
>> >
>> > what about separate file, but included from net/lib.sh?
>>
>> Unfortunately that would be even worse. Then you need to remember to put
>> the file into TEST_INCLUDES despite seemingly not using it.
>>
>> Like ideally we'd have automation for this. But I don't know how to do that
>> without actually parsing the bash files, and that's just asking for
>> trouble. Maybe after the defer stuff we also need a module system :-/
>
> FWIW we could throw it into net/lib, which has a fake target, see:
>
> b86761ff6374 ("selftests: net: add scaffolding for Netlink tests in Python")
Oh, I see net/lib is the default dependency of everything net.
This could work. I'll check it out.
