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diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/README b/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/README index 7fdb6a9ca543..392a5a91ed37 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/README +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/README @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ to easily create and test complex environments. Unfortunately, these namespaces can not be used with actual switching ASICs, as their ports can not be migrated to other network namespaces -(NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL) and most of them probably do not support the +(dev->netns_immutable) and most of them probably do not support the L1-separation provided by namespaces. However, a similar kind of flexibility can be achieved by using VRFs and @@ -57,6 +57,21 @@ o Code shall be checked using ShellCheck [1] prior to submission. 1. https://www.shellcheck.net/ +Cleanups +-------- + +o lib.sh brings in defer.sh (by way of ../lib.sh) by default. Consider + making use of the defer primitive to schedule automatic cleanups. This + makes it harder to forget to remove a temporary netdevice, kill a running + process or perform other cleanup when the test script is interrupted. + +o When adding a helper that dirties the environment, but schedules all + necessary cleanups through defer, consider prefixing it adf_ for + consistency with lib.sh and ../lib.sh helpers. This serves as an + immediately visible bit of documentation about the helper API. + +o Definitely do the above for any new code in lib.sh, if practical. + Customization ============= |