Linux Ethernet Bridging - Apr 2023 - [Bridge] [PATCH v2 net-next 6/6] selftests: forwarding: add dynamic FDB test

On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 12:37, Vladimir Oltean <olteanv at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> So, by running the command I posted in the earlier email, you actually
> run it on the physical DSA user port interfaces, and it should pass
> there too.
Okay, that sounds like a good idea which I have not done before. I am
seeing how I can install Debian in an Qemu or VMWare setup to be able to
test that way.
> This is based on the equivalency principle between the
> software and the hardware data paths that I was talking about.
>
> If you're actively and repeatedly making an effort to work with your
eyes
> closed, and then build strawmen around the fact that you don't see,
then
> you're not going to get very friendly reactions from people, me
included,
> who explain things to you that pertain to your due diligence. This is
> because these people know the things that they're explaining to you out
> of their own due diligence, and, as a result, are not easily fooled by
> your childish excuses.
I am not coming with excuses here, and certainly not childish ones at
that either. I am just pointing out that on my device the tests don't
run well because of memory shortage and my reasoning why I think it is
so.
I will as long as the system is as it is with these selftests, just run
single subtests at a time on target, but if I have new phy problems like
the one you have seen I have had before, then testing on target becomes
off limits.

On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 02:43:11PM +0200, Hans Schultz
wrote:
> I will as long as the system is as it is with these selftests, just run
> single subtests at a time on target, but if I have new phy problems like
> the one you have seen I have had before, then testing on target becomes
> off limits.
Please open a dedicated communication channel (separate email thread on
netdev at vger.kernel.org) with the appropriate maintainers for the PHY
code that is failing for you in To:, and you will get the help that you
need to resolve that and to be able to test on the target board.