Re: [PATCH v12 03/18] kunit: test: add string_stream a std::stream like string builder

[Stephen Boyd]

Quoting Brendan Higgins (2019-08-12 22:02:59)
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 9:56 PM Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Quoting Brendan Higgins (2019-08-12 17:41:05)
> > > On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 4:59 PM Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > kunit_resource_destroy (respective equivalents to devm_kfree, and
> > > > > devres_destroy) and use kunit_kfree here?
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Yes, or drop the API entirely? Does anything need this functionality?
> > >
> > > Drop the kunit_resource API? I would strongly prefer not to.
> >
> > No. I mean this API, string_stream_clear(). Does anything use it?
> 
> Oh, right. No.
> 
> However, now that I added the kunit_resource_destroy, I thought it
> might be good to free the string_stream after I use it in each call to
> kunit_assert->format(...) in which case I will be using this logic.
> 
> So I think the right thing to do is to expose string_stream_destroy so
> kunit_do_assert can clean up when it's done, and then demote
> string_stream_clear to static. Sound good?

Ok, sure. I don't really see how clearing it explicitly when the
assertion prints vs. never allocating it to begin with is really any
different. Maybe I've missed something though.