Re: [PATCH v2 linux-kselftest-test 1/3] kunit: allow kunit tests to be loaded as a module

From: Brendan Higgins
Date: Wed Oct 23 2019 - 21:33:30 EST


On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 5:21 AM Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 07:32:18PM +0100, Alan Maguire wrote:
> > kunit needs a non-exported global kernel symbol
> > (sysctl_hung_task_timeout_secs).
>
> Sounds like a perfect use case for the new symbol namespaces [0]. We
> wouldn't want random drivers importing this namespace, but for kunit it
> would seem reasonable.
>
> [0] https://lwn.net/Articles/798254/

Sounds good to me.