Re: [PATCH v2 linux-kselftest-test 0/3] kunit: support building core/tests as modules

[Brendan Higgins]

On Tue, Oct 08, 2019 at 03:55:43PM +0100, Alan Maguire wrote:
> The current kunit execution model is to provide base kunit functionality
> and tests built-in to the kernel.  The aim of this series is to allow
> building kunit itself and tests as modules.  This in turn allows a

Cool! I had plans for supporting this eventually, so I am more than
happy to accept support for this!

> simple form of selective execution; load the module you wish to test.
> In doing so, kunit itself (if also built as a module) will be loaded as
> an implicit dependency.

Seems like a reasonable initial approach. I had some plans for a
centralized test executor, but I don't think that this should be a
problem.

> Because this requires a core API modification - if a module delivers
> multiple suites, they must be declared with the kunit_test_suites()
> macro - we're proposing this patch as a candidate to be applied to the
> test tree before too many kunit consumers appear.  We attempt to deal
> with existing consumers in patch 1.

Makese sense.