Re: [PATCH] kselftest/alsa: Use card name rather than number in test names

[Jaroslav Kysela <perex@xxxxxxxx>]

On 12. 07. 24 10:21, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jul 2024 18:19:25 +0200,
> Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 06:08:38PM +0200, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> > > On 11. 07. 24 16:33, Mark Brown wrote:
> >
> > > > Address this by replacing our use of card numbers with card names which are
> > > > more likely to be stable across runs. We use the long name since in the
> >
> > > I think that a combination of card number and card ID may be sufficient (and
> > > a compromise). It's shorter and user-friendly. Additionally, a table may be
> > > printed at the beginning of report with card number, card ID and long card
> > > name for further processing and identification.
> >
> > These don't help, the problem is that anything which includes the card
> > number in the test name result is going to result in unstable test names
> > depending on race conditions at boot.  There are automated systems that
> > parse kselftest output generically, I'm not sure there's a great deal of
> > enthusiasm for writing a custom parser for the ALSA selftests
> > specifically.
>
> OTOH, longname can be really ugly to read, and it can vary because it
> often embeds address or irq numbers in the string.
>
> If a general name is the goal, how about using shortname instead?
>
> Or use id field, as Jaroslav suggested, but without the card number
> suffix; then it's unique among multiple cards.

I prefer this (use only ID field). This string can be also set in the user 
space using sysfs/udev, so the administrator may change it if the default is 
not ideal.

					Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex@xxxxxxxx>
Linux Sound Maintainer; ALSA Project; Red Hat, Inc.