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 ff4c8b3ed2c983ccdaca49fa5646c726da54a7be..395fc0cd75f2b6a8e3b9cb0afb3ae8683a7ec166 100644 (file)
--- 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.