Netlink protocol is in host byte order, so the provided binary netlink
message buffer being in little endian format will cause the test to fail
on big endian systems.
Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <p...@nwl.cc>
---
.gitignore | 1 +
testsuite/Makefile | 1 +
testsuite/tests/ip/link/show_dev_wo_vf_rate.t | 5 +++++
testsuite/tools/Makefile | 2 ++
testsuite/tools/is_big_endian.c | 7 +++++++
5 files changed, 16 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 testsuite/tools/Makefile
create mode 100644 testsuite/tools/is_big_endian.c
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 74a5496ddf7aa..a1f295dac3dd2 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ series
# tests
testsuite/results
testsuite/iproute2/iproute2-this
+testsuite/tools/is_big_endian
# doc files generated at runtime
doc/*.aux
diff --git a/testsuite/Makefile b/testsuite/Makefile
index 2027650051d48..17568881b8b66 100644
--- a/testsuite/Makefile
+++ b/testsuite/Makefile
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ configure:
compile: configure
echo "Entering iproute2" && cd iproute2 && $(MAKE) && cd ..;
+ echo "Entering tools" && cd tools && $(MAKE) && cd ..;
listtests:
@for t in $(TESTS); do \
diff --git a/testsuite/tests/ip/link/show_dev_wo_vf_rate.t
b/testsuite/tests/ip/link/show_dev_wo_vf_rate.t
index a600ba65c5bec..ad90af5400271 100755
--- a/testsuite/tests/ip/link/show_dev_wo_vf_rate.t
+++ b/testsuite/tests/ip/link/show_dev_wo_vf_rate.t
@@ -2,5 +2,10 @@
source lib/generic.sh
+if ./tools/is_big_endian; then
+ ts_log "won't work on big endian system"
+ ts_skip
+fi
+
NL_FILE="tests/ip/link/dev_wo_vf_rate.nl"
ts_ip "$0" "Show VF devices w/o VF rate info" -d monitor file $NL_FILE
diff --git a/testsuite/tools/Makefile b/testsuite/tools/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..ecbea16c2c1cc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testsuite/tools/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+is_big_endian: is_big_endian.c
+ $(CC) -o $@ $<
diff --git a/testsuite/tools/is_big_endian.c b/testsuite/tools/is_big_endian.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..303e91b4603e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testsuite/tools/is_big_endian.c
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+//#include <stdio.h>
+#include <arpa/inet.h>
+
+int main(void)
+{
+ return 1 != ntohs(1);
+}
--
2.11.0
