Re: [Question] json parsing and bpf selftests dependencies

["Alexis Lothoré" <alexis.lothore@bootlin.com>]

On Thu Feb 26, 2026 at 6:21 PM CET, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2026 at 2:36 AM Alexis Lothoré
> <alexis.lothore@bootlin.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>> I am pursuing my quest to convert standalone bpf tests (from
>> tools/testing/selftests/bpf) into the test_progs framework so they can
>> be executed automatically by the CI tooling.
>>
>> I would like to continue on the bpftool tests, especially
>> test_bpftool.py ([1]).
>
> I think it outlived itself long ago.
> Just delete it.
> Any new bpftool features can be tested through test_progs.
> No need to test json output specifically.
> It's diminishing returns.

Ok. That's a doubt I had while converting the first round of tests
(bpf_metadata, bpftool_map_access), whether we really want to test exact
bpftool CLI output, or if test_progs->libbpf testing was fine.

I'll remote this test_bpftool.py then, thanks for the feedback.

Alexis

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