Re: [PATCH 8/8] gpio: sim: new testing module

[Bartosz Golaszewski]

On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 1:43 AM Kent Gibson <warthog618@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 09:37:55PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 4:57 PM Andy Shevchenko
> > <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 02:46:24PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > > > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ...
> > >
>
> [snip]
>
> > > Honestly, I don't like the idea of Yet Another (custom) Parser in the kernel.
> > >
> > > Have you investigated existing parsers? We have cmdline.c, gpio-aggregator.c,
> > > etc. Besides the fact of test cases which are absent here. And who knows what
> > > we allow to be entered.
> > >
> >
> > Yes, I looked all around the kernel to find something I could reuse
> > but failed to find anything useful for this particular purpose. If you
> > have something you could point me towards, I'm open to alternatives.
> >
> > Once we agree on the form of the module, I'll port self-tests to using
> > it instead of gpio-mockup, so we'll have some tests in the tree.
> >
>
> Given the existing selftests focus on testing the gpio-mockup itself, it
> would be more appropriate that you add separate tests for gpio-sim.
>
> As an end user I'm interested in the concrete example of driving gpio-sim
> that selftests would provide, so I'm looking forward to seeing that.
>
> Cheers,
> Kent.

Makes sense, I'll add tests in v2.

Bartosz