Re: [PATCH 1/4] kunit: Add APIs for managing devices

[Amadeusz Sławiński <amadeuszx.slawinski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/5/2023 8:31 AM, davidgow@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Tests for drivers often require a struct device to pass to other
> functions. While it's possible to create these with
> root_device_register(), or to use something like a platform device, this
> is both a misuse of those APIs, and can be difficult to clean up after,
> for example, a failed assertion.
>
> Add some KUnit-specific functions for registering and unregistering a
> struct device:
> - kunit_device_register()
> - kunit_device_register_with_driver()
> - kunit_device_unregister()
>
> These helpers allocate a on a 'kunit' bus which will either probe the
> driver passed in (kunit_device_register_with_driver), or will create a
> stub driver (kunit_device_register) which is cleaned up on test shutdown.
>
> Devices are automatically unregistered on test shutdown, but can be
> manually unregistered earlier with kunit_device_unregister() in order
> to, for example, test device release code.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Gow <davidgow@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst |  49 +++++++++
>   include/kunit/device.h                  |  76 ++++++++++++++
>   lib/kunit/Makefile                      |   3 +-
>   lib/kunit/device.c                      | 176 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   lib/kunit/kunit-test.c                  |  68 +++++++++++-
>   lib/kunit/test.c                        |   3 +
>   6 files changed, 373 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst
> index 9db12e91668e..a222a98edceb 100644
> --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst
> @@ -797,3 +797,52 @@ structures as shown below:
>   KUnit is not enabled, or if no test is running in the current task, it will do
>   nothing. This compiles down to either a no-op or a static key check, so will
>   have a negligible performance impact when no test is running.
> +
> +Managing Fake Devcices and Drivers
> +----------------------------------

Typo: Devices