Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add lib/glob.c

[Andrew Morton]

On Sat, 10 May 2014 08:21:38 -0400 Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > +int
> > +main(void)
> > +{
> > +	size_t i;
> > +
> > +	for (i = 0; i < sizeof(tests)/sizeof(*tests); i++)
> > +		test(tests + i);
> > +
> > +	return 0;
> > +}
> > +
> > +#endif	/* UNITTEST */
> 
> Again, I don't really think the userland testing code belongs here.
> If you wanna keep them, please make it in-kernel selftesting.  We
> don't really wanna keep code which can't get built and tested in
> kernel tree proper.

If the tests don't measurably increase boot times we could run them
unconditionally at boot.  Mark everything __init/__initdata and
the costs are very low.  lib/plist.c does this.
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