Re: [PATCH v18 00/19] kunit: introduce KUnit, the Linux kernel unit testing framework

shuah
2019-10-04T21:59:30Z

On 10/4/19 3:42 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 2:39 PM Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
>>
>> This question is primarily directed at Shuah and Linus....
>>
>> What's the current status of the kunit series now that Brendan has
>> moved it out of the top-level kunit directory as Linus has requested?
>

The move happened smack in the middle of merge window and landed in
linux-next towards the end of the merge window.

> We seemed to decide to just wait for 5.5, but there is nothing that
> looks to block that. And I encouraged Shuah to find more kunit cases
> for when it _does_ get merged.
>

Right. I communicated that to Brendan that we could work on adding more
kunit based tests which would help get more mileage on the kunit.

> So if the kunit branch is stable, and people want to start using it
> for their unit tests, then I think that would be a good idea, and then
> during the 5.5 merge window we'll not just get the infrastructure,
> we'll get a few more users too and not just examples.
>
thanks,
-- Shuah