Re: [PATCH v5 linux-kselftest-test 0/6] kunit: support building core/tests as modules

From: Brendan Higgins
Date: Tue Dec 03 2019 - 18:06:35 EST


On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 4:08 AM Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@xxxxxxxxxx> 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
> 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.
>
> 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 set 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 3.

Tested-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@xxxxxxxxxx>