From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
To: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
Cc: Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@google.com>,
David Gow <davidgow@google.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"open list:KERNEL SELFTEST FRAMEWORK"
<linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org>,
Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib: add basic KUnit test for lib/math
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 12:02:20 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201023090220.GU4077@smile.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFd5g46RBSgqujAbPSKasP5B6ufojHwTztvOWjSg3Lxk5QGHxw@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 02:21:40PM -0700, Brendan Higgins wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 12:04 PM Andy Shevchenko
> <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 11:53:50AM -0700, Brendan Higgins wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 8:06 AM Andy Shevchenko
> > > <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> wrote:
...
> > Why do we have docs in the first place?
> > For test cases I think it's a crucial part, because tests many time are written
> > by newbies, who would like to understand all under-the-hood stuff. You imply
>
> Good point. Yeah, we don't really have any documentation that explains
> the internals at all. I agree: we need to fix that.
>
> > that they need to drop themselves into the code directly. It's very harsh to
> > begin with Linux kernel development, really.
>
> No, I was not trying to imply that everyone should just jump in the
> code and ignore the docs. I was just trying to point out that some
> people - myself included - rather see code than docs. Clearly some
> people prefer docs over code as well. Thus, I was trying to argue that
> both are appropriate.
>
> Nevertheless, based on the other comments you sent, I don't think
> that's what we are talking about: sounds like you just want us to
> improve the docs first to make sure we do it. That's fine with me.
Right. What confused me is that test cases for math were pushed as a good
example how to create a test case, but at the same time docs left untouched.
--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-23 9:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-19 22:45 [PATCH] lib: add basic KUnit test for lib/math Daniel Latypov
2020-10-20 0:45 ` kernel test robot
2020-10-20 0:45 ` kernel test robot
2020-10-20 8:09 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-10-20 16:13 ` Daniel Latypov
2020-10-21 3:40 ` David Gow
2020-10-21 17:47 ` Daniel Latypov
2020-10-22 15:06 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-10-22 16:26 ` Daniel Latypov
2020-10-22 18:51 ` Brendan Higgins
2020-10-22 19:10 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-10-22 19:12 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-10-22 18:53 ` Brendan Higgins
2020-10-22 19:05 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-10-22 21:21 ` Brendan Higgins
2020-10-23 9:02 ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]
2020-11-02 14:51 ` kernel test robot
2020-11-02 14:51 ` kernel test robot
2020-11-03 1:32 ` kernel test robot
2020-11-03 1:32 ` kernel test robot
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2020-11-02 3:42 kernel test robot
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