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

[Tom Rini]

On Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 03:42:00PM -0700, Simon Glass wrote:
> 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.

Yes, until someone has a better suggestion than "ubpy", we should leave
things alone. "fixture" has its own meaning within pytest and so that
would also be confusing.

-- 
Tom
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