On 08/10/2017 06:10 PM, John Stultz wrote: > On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 4:53 PM, Shuah Khan <shuahkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> This patch series consists of changes to: >> >> Move ksft_ stubs from individual tests into kselftest_stubs.h and change >> tests to include it. >> >> Fix posix_timers and freq-step tests to run without ksft_ framework. >> >> This is in preparation to convert timers tests to ksft TAP 13 format. >> >> Question for John Stultz: >> >> The conversion work will be easier without the requirement to be able to >> build and run these tests without ksft_ framework. So far the stubs are >> simpler. It is might be necessary to ifdef some code paths to have sane >> output for both KTEST and !KTEST cases. >> >> Would it be easier to pull in kselftest.h into timers external repo >> (if one still exists). This is based on the observation that newer >> timer tests don't support !KTEST case e.g: posix_timers and freq-step. >> >> Please review and let me know how you would like me to proceed with the >> conversion. I am looking for answer to how important is it to continue to >> support !KTEST case. > > Yea. I'm thinking at this point I'm fine with dropping the attempt to > keep kselftest and my external timekeeping tests in sync. Would you like me to clean !KTEST support or leave it the way it is. It sounds like, I will drop these patches anyway. > > Though something that might be nice however is having some place that > keeps tarball releases of kselftest around? As it would make pulling > tests onto a target machine a bit easier. Does that already exist? > There is an install script tools/testing/selftests/gen_kselftest_tar.sh for generating tar-ball for compiled tests at the moment. There is none for source package. thanks, -- Shuah -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kselftest" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
