From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2022 22:32:44 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: patman: document how to run test suite via pytest
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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>
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diff --git a/tools/patman/patman.rst b/tools/patman/patman.rst
index ff4c8b3ed2..395fc0cd75 100644
--- a/tools/patman/patman.rst
+++ b/tools/patman/patman.rst
@@ -684,6 +684,12 @@ Note that since the test suite depends on data files only available in
 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.