Commit fde662d9 authored by Mauro Carvalho Chehab's avatar Mauro Carvalho Chehab Committed by Shuah Khan

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
......@@ -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
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