Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/ltp-testsuite: bump version to 20230127

[Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>]

Hello Petr,

On Fri, 27 Jan 2023 23:32:56 +0100
Petr Vorel <pevik@seznam.cz> wrote:

> From: Petr Vorel <petr.vorel@gmail.com>
> 
> Remove musl related sysinfo.h patch. This Buildroot specific workaround
> is not needed any more (kernel got fixed in a85cbe6159ff ("uapi: move
> constants from <linux/kernel.h> to <linux/const.h>") in v5.11, some time
> took to rebuilt Buildroot toolchains, but even that was more than year
> ago).

Sorry, but this explanation is not entirely clear to me. Do you mean
that only toolchains with kernel headers >= 5.11 will no longer have
the problem? We definitely need to support toolchains that have kernel
headers < 5.11.

> NOTE: I'd like to add /opt/ltp/runltp-ng (tools/runltp-ng/runltp-ng in
> source, from [1]) symlink to /usr/bin (that should be trivial).
> The tool should have only Python 3.6+ (no external modules so far)
> and while we (LTP upstream developers) would recommend to not use it on
> SUT (guest), where LTP is being run, but on host, we agreed to put
> runltp-ng on both sides SUT (target package) and on host (host package).
> But whole thing might take me more time thus posting updated package
> without it.

In the context of Buildroot, I guess it makes sense to be able to start
the LTP test suite directly on the target, so indeed it would make
sense to have runltp-ng on the target. However, you could also have a
host package to install runltp-ng on the host for those who want to run
it on their machine, and control the execution of the tests on their
target.

Thanks!

Thomas
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