Re: [PATCH v4 kunit-next 0/2] kunit: extend kunit resources API

[Brendan Higgins]

On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 2:46 PM Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> A recent RFC patch set [1] suggests some additional functionality
> may be needed around kunit resources.  It seems to require
>
> 1. support for resources without allocation
> 2. support for lookup of such resources
> 3. support for access to resources across multiple kernel threads
>
> The proposed changes here are designed to address these needs.
> The idea is we first generalize the API to support adding
> resources with static data; then from there we support named
> resources.  The latter support is needed because if we are
> in a different thread context and only have the "struct kunit *"
> to work with, we need a way to identify a resource in lookup.
>
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/2/26/1286
>
> Changes since v3:
> - removed unused "init" field from "struct kunit_resources" (Brendan)

Shuah, it looks like you haven't sent a PR to Linus yet. Would you
mind picking this up for 5.8?