Messages in this thread | | | From | Brendan Higgins <> | Date | Fri, 20 Sep 2019 09:35:06 -0700 | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] Kselftest update for Linux 5.4-rc1 |
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On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 9:27 AM Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > Hi Linus, > > On Fri, Sep 20, 2019, 10:18 AM Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 12:26 PM Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: >> > >> > This Kselftest update for Linux 5.4-rc1 consists of several fixes to >> > existing tests and adds KUnit, a lightweight unit testing and mocking >> > framework for the Linux kernel from Brendan Higgins. >> >> So I pulled this, but then I almost immediately unpulled it. >> >> My reason for doing that may be odd, but it's because of the top-level >> 'kunit' directory. This shouldn't be on the top level. >> >> The reason I react so strongly is that it actually breaks my finger >> memory. I don't type out filenames - I auto-compete them. So "kernel/" >> is "k<tab>", "drivers/" is "d<tab>" etc. >> >> It already doesn't work for everything ("mm/" is actually "mm<tab>" >> not because we have files in the git tree, but because the build >> creates various "module" files), but this breaks a common pattern for >> me.
Sorry about that. I am surprised that none of the other reviewers brought this up.
> On hindsight, I probably should have run this by you to get your feedback. > >> > In the future KUnit will be linked to Kselftest framework to provide >> > a way to trigger KUnit tests from user-space. >> >> Can the kernel parts please move to lib/kunit/ or something like that.
I'm fine with lib/kunit/.
> I will work with Brendan and come up with a plan and send another request early next week.
Cheers
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