On 03.04.2014 10:38, Jussi Pakkanen wrote:
> On 02.04.2014 21:39, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> 
>>> In testing it is sometimes useful to be able to replace the system
>>> ofono daemon instance with our own. This patch makes this possible
>>> using dbus' name replacement feature. This patch has the plumbing
>>> changes to make it possible to set the name replacement settings.
>>> The next patch allows you to set these parameters from the command
>>> line. The default behaviour does not change, i.e. the service name
>>> is not replaceable and the daemon will not try to replace an
>>> existing ofono instance.
>>
>> what is this useful for. We have been running oFono for more than 4
>> years and BlueZ with D-Bus for over 10 years and never had the need
>> for doing this. So I do not understand why we would support this.
> 
> This helps in an issue that comes up in system-wide automated testing.
> There are some tests that we want to run different ofono instances. All
> these tests need to run in the same instance and without root
> privileges. The normal approach would be to run the tests under a
> private dbus session. However this becomes problematic when the thing we
> are testing requires other services that are only provided by the real
> system bus. Permitting name transfer allows us to replace only the ofono
> instance and do so without root privileges (installing a custom dbus
> conf file that permits name replacement during testing is straightforward).


Indeed, and this combined with commit 5f765259 one can easily run a
series of tests (let's say dialer UI, messaging..) with different
phonesim configurations changing the number of modems and phonesim .xml
files for each modem.


 -- Antti