Re: [PATCH kvm-unit-tests 5/5] x86-run: Pull extra arguments from unittests.cfg

[Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>]

On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 07:58:56PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> On 03/17/2013 11:25 AM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 08:09:09PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> >> Some tests want extra arguments as enumerated in unittests.cfg,
> >> use them.
> >>
> >> unittests.cfg also has a few sections about invoking certains tests
> >> with different combinations of options, but x86-run doesn't do
> >> anything with that.
> > With this it will not be possible to use x86-run outside of autotest,
> > no?
> > 
> 
> Not true, x86-run is still meant to be the standalone helper script for
> running unittests. autotest doesn't care about x86-run, and ConfigParser is a
> standard python module.
> 
> x86/unittests.cfg already exists in the kvm-unit-tests repo, I assumed it was
> encoding required test options but maybe I'm wrong about that. It's still
> useful to build off of if there's value in running some tests with different
> combinations of parameters.

I fail to see what is the point here.

unittests.cfg has been originally (and continues to be, AFAIK), intended
for autotest:
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kvm/2010/6/24/6264146

Please don't remove manual execution from README.