[PATCH 1/4] test/py: Shorten u_boot_console

[Simon Glass]

Hi Tom,

On Sat, 25 Jan 2025 at 14:51, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 02:31:36PM -0700, Simon Glass wrote:
>
> > This fixture name is quite long and results in lots of verbose code.
> > We know this is U-Boot so the 'u_boot_' part is not necessary.
> >
> > But it is also a bit of a misnomer, since it provides access to all the
> > information available to tests. It is not just the console.
> >
> > It would be too confusing to use con as it would be confused with
> > config and it is probably too short.
> >
> > So shorten it to 'ubpy'.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> [snip]
> >  102 files changed, 2591 insertions(+), 2591 deletions(-)
>
> First, I'm not sure I like "ubpy". I believe "u_boot_console" is because
> it's how we interact with the stdin/stdout of the running U-Boot. And
> indeed it provides more than that. But ubpy is too abstract and unclear,
> and looking at the diffstat, I don't know that big global rename is
> justified to save text space.

I actually get quite confused hunting around in the fixtures so I
suspect others do too. I would like to settle on some better names.

Yes, I don't like ubpy much, either. Your favourite AI suggests
'fixture' or 'test_env', both I which I prefer. The only challenge is
that 'env' has various other meanings in U-Boot.

Regards,
Simon