patman: document how to run test suite via pytest
Pytest offers useful features such as selecting tests by means of a
regular expression, or running the pdb debugger upon encountering a
test failure.
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@savoirfairelinux.com>
diff --git a/tools/patman/patman.rst b/tools/patman/patman.rst
index ff4c8b3..395fc0c 100644
--- a/tools/patman/patman.rst
+++ b/tools/patman/patman.rst
@@ -684,6 +684,12 @@
the git checkout, the `test` command is hidden unless `patman` is
invoked from the U-Boot git repository.
+Alternatively, you can run the test suite via Pytest:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ $ cd tools/patman && pytest
+
Error handling doesn't always produce friendly error messages - e.g.
putting an incorrect tag in a commit may provide a confusing message.