[RFC v3 18/19] of: unittest: split out a couple of test cases from unittest

Frank Rowand
2019-02-14T23:57:09Z

On 12/5/18 3:54 PM, Brendan Higgins wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 4, 2018@2:58 AM Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Brendan,
>>
>> On 11/28/18 11:36 AM, Brendan Higgins wrote:
>>> Split out a couple of test cases that these features in base.c from the
>>> unittest.c monolith. The intention is that we will eventually split out
>>> all test cases and group them together based on what portion of device
>>> tree they test.
>>
>> Why does splitting this file apart improve the implementation?
>
> This is in preparation for patch 19/19 and other hypothetical future
> patches where test cases are split up and grouped together by what
> portion of DT they test (for example the parsing tests and the
> platform/device tests would probably go separate files as well). This
> patch by itself does not do anything useful, but I figured it made
> patch 19/19 (and, if you like what I am doing, subsequent patches)
> easier to review.

I do not see any value in splitting the devicetree tests into
multiple files.

Please help me understand what the benefits of such a split are.

Thanks,

Frank