Re: [RFC PATCH v3 0/4] ftrace: Add a ftrace test collection

From: Namhyung Kim
Date: Wed Sep 03 2014 - 22:43:01 EST


On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 11:06:32 +0000, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here is the collection of testcases for ftrace version 3.
> This is just some updates and fixes according to the
> discussion at previous version.
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/26/304
>
> The major updates are:
> - Fix some expressions to work on dash (Thanks Luis!)
> - Support UNRESOLVED/UNTESTED/UNSUPPORTED results for testcase.
> Those are POSIX 1003.3 standard.
> (see http://www.gnu.org/software/dejagnu/manual/x47.html for
> more details)
> - Fix to show error logs.
>
> ftracetest is a small dash script for testing ftrace features.
> It will be required to add a unit test for each new feature
> after this is merged, because of preventing feature regressions.
>
> This version still be out of the selftest. However, at the kernel
> summit, I talked with Shuah about that. And since the kselftest
> will be the standard kernel unit test framework, I agreed to
> move this under the selftest. But I also would like to ask Steven
> and Namhyung to agree with it before moving.
>
> Actually, since we've already has similar shell-script base
> testcase under kselftest, we can easily move this under
> selftests.

By [k]selftest, did you mean tools/testing/selftests/ ?

Anyway I have no objection to the move.

Thanks for your work!
Namhyung
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