Re: [PATCH 1/1] of: unittest: add program to process EXPECT messages

[Rob Herring]

On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 12:14 PM <frowand.list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@xxxxxxxx>
>
> If unittest detects a problem it will print a warning or error message
> to the console.  Unittest also triggers warning and error messages from
> other kernel code as a result of intentionally bad unittest data.  This
> has led to confusion as to whether the triggered messages are an
> expected result of a test or whether there is a real problem that is
> independent of unittest.
>
> EXPECT messages were added to unittest to report each triggered message
> that is expected, resulting in verbose console output.
>
> scripts/dtc/of_unittest is a new program that processes the EXPECT
> messages to determine whether the triggered messages occurred and
> also removes the excess verbosity of the EXPECT messages.  More
> information is available from 'scripts/dtc/of_unittest_expect --help'.
>
> Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> permissions for scripts/dtc/of_unittest should be 770

Why? 755 is what the patch says and what most/all executables in the kernel are.

Rob

>
> I will reply to this message with the usage message from
> 'scripts/dtc/of_unittest_expect --help'.
>
> I will also reply with examples of raw and processed console logs.
>
>  Documentation/devicetree/of_unittest.rst |  27 +-
>  scripts/dtc/of_unittest_expect           | 408 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 432 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100755 scripts/dtc/of_unittest_expect