Re: RFC - kernel selftest result documentation (KTAP)

[Kees Cook]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 08:37:18PM +0000, Bird, Tim wrote:
> One thing that needs to be rationalized between KUnit and selftest
> is the syntax for subtests.  KUnit follows the TAP14 spec, and starts
> subtests with indented "# Subtest: name of the child test"
> and selftests just indents the output from the child test, so it
> starts with indented "TAP version 13".  One issue I have with the
> TAP14/KUnit approach is that the output from the child is different
> depending on whether the test is called in the context of another
> test or not.

Right -- I'd *really* like the subtests to be "separable", since the
primary issue is actually that a subtest may not know it is a subtest,
and passing that knowledge in may be difficult/disruptive.

-- 
Kees Cook