Re: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 0/4] ftrace: Add a ftrace test collection

[Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>]

(2014/09/04 11:42), Namhyung Kim wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 11:06:32 +0000, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Here is the collection of testcases for ftrace version 3.
>> This is just some updates and fixes according to the 
>> discussion at previous version.
>>   https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/26/304
>>
>> The major updates are:
>>  - Fix some expressions to work on dash (Thanks Luis!)
>>  - Support UNRESOLVED/UNTESTED/UNSUPPORTED results for testcase.
>>    Those are POSIX 1003.3 standard.
>>    (see http://www.gnu.org/software/dejagnu/manual/x47.html for
>>     more details)
>>  - Fix to show error logs.
>>
>> ftracetest is a small dash script for testing ftrace features.
>> It will be required to add a unit test for each new feature
>> after this is merged, because of preventing feature regressions.
>>
>> This version still be out of the selftest. However, at the kernel
>> summit, I talked with Shuah about that. And since the kselftest
>> will be the standard kernel unit test framework, I agreed to
>> move this under the selftest. But I also would like to ask Steven
>> and Namhyung to agree with it before moving.
>>
>> Actually, since we've already has similar shell-script base
>> testcase under kselftest, we can easily move this under
>> selftests.
> 
> By [k]selftest, did you mean tools/testing/selftests/ ?

Yes, and I will just move tools/testing/ftrace to
tools/testing/selftests/ftrace and add a Makefile.

> Anyway I have no objection to the move.

Thank you!

> 
> Thanks for your work!
> Namhyung
> 


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Masami HIRAMATSU
Software Platform Research Dept. Linux Technology Research Center
Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory
E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com