Re: [RFC v3 18/19] of: unittest: split out a couple of test cases from unittest

[Brendan Higgins]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 6:47 PM Frank Rowand <frowand.list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 3/21/19 6:30 PM, Brendan Higgins wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 5:22 PM Frank Rowand <frowand.list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> >> On 2/27/19 7:52 PM, Brendan Higgins wrote:
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> < snip >  but thanks for the comments in the snipped section.
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> >> Thanks for leaving 18/19 and 19/19 off in v4.
> >
> > Sure, no problem. It was pretty clear that it was a waste of both of
> > our times to continue discussing those at this juncture. :-)
> >
> > Do you still want me to try to convert the DT not-exactly-unittest to
> > KUnit? I would kind of prefer (I don't feel *super* strongly about the
> > matter) we don't call it that since I was intending for it to be the
> > flagship initial example, but I certainly don't mind trying to clean
> > this patch up to get it up to snuff. It's really just a question of
> > whether it is worth it to you.
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> In the long term, if KUnit is adopted by the kernel, then I think it
> probably makes sense for devicetree unittest to convert from using
> our own unittest() function to report an individual test pass/fail
> to instead use something like KUNIT_EXPECT_*() to provide more
> consistent test messages to test frameworks.  That is assuming
> KUNIT_EXPECT_*() provides comparable functionality.  I still have
> not looked into that question since the converted tests (patch 15/17
> in v4) still does not execute without throwing internal errors.

Sounds good.

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> If that conversion occurred, I would also avoid the ASSERTs.

Noted.