[PATCH V2 06/12] selftests, powerpc: Add test for system wide DSCR default
Dave Jones
davej at codemonkey.org.uk
Wed Jan 21 08:40:33 AEDT 2015
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 10:44:31AM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > Also, I would like to see the test results reports using
> > kselftest.h - it can be separate patch in the interest of
> > getting tests in.
>
> Sorry but kselftest.h doesn't do anything useful for us.
>
> We have existing test reporting that uses the subunit protocol.
>
> I'm happy to convert that to TAP, or some other well defined output format, but
> not to something ad-hoc like kselftest.h currently provides.
Something TAP-alike would also help reduce some of the spew from
tests that are going to fail.
eg, running execveat tests on a kernel that doesn't implement that
syscall currently spews around 20 lines of [FAIL]. Adding something
to the beginning of the test to set plan() accordingly if it detects
-ENOSYS could make that output a little cleaner.
That other projects (like jenkins, bug trackers etc) could consume
the output of the test runs would be a nice bonus. I only recently
started looking at kselftests and was surprised at the amount
of variance we have in the way of printing 'Ok' '[OK]' 'ok...' etc.
Dave
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