Re: [PATCH v5 1/8] drivers: kunit: Generic helpers for test device creation

From: Matti Vaittinen
Date: Fri Mar 24 2023 - 06:17:38 EST


On 3/24/23 12:05, Matti Vaittinen wrote:
On 3/24/23 11:52, David Gow wrote:
On Fri, 24 Mar 2023 at 14:51, Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 3/24/23 08:34, David Gow wrote:
On Fri, 24 Mar 2023 at 14:11, Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I think that sounds like a good strategy for now, and we can work on a
set of 'generic helpers' which have an associated bus and struct
kunit_device in the meantime. If we can continue to use
root_device_register until those are ready, that'd be very convenient.

Would it be a tiny bit more acceptable if we did add a very simple:

#define kunit_root_device_register(name) root_device_register(name)
#define kunit_root_device_unregister(dev) root_device_unregister(dev)

to include/kunit/device.h (or somesuch)

This should help us later to at least spot the places where
root_device_[un]register() is abused and (potentially mass-)covert them
to use the proper helpers when they're available.


Great idea.

The code I've been playing with has the following in include/kunit/device.h:

/* Register a new device against a KUnit test. */
struct device *kunit_device_register(struct kunit *test, const char *name);
/* Unregister a device created by kunit_device_register() early (i.e.,
before test cleanup). */
void kunit_device_unregister(struct kunit *test, struct device *dev);

If we used the same names, and just forwarded them to
root_device_register() and root_device_unregister() for now
(discarding the struct kunit pointer), then I expect we could just
swap out the implementation to gain the extra functionality.

There's one thing though. If the goal is to do a direct replacement and if automatic device deletion upon test completion / test abort is planned - then it should be there also for these initial wrappers.

If these wrappers don't yet include the automatic device clean-up - then it probably makes more sense to just do the kunit_root_device_* defines because the tests are likely to need removing the explicit device clean-ups when proper APIs are finished.

Yours,
-- Matti

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Matti Vaittinen
Linux kernel developer at ROHM Semiconductors
Oulu Finland

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