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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
	David Gow <davidgow@google.com>,
	linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] Documentation: dev-tools: Clarify requirements for result description
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2022 14:36:47 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202211171436.41DCC9F@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221117104636.639889-1-broonie@kernel.org>

On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 10:46:36AM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> Currently the KTAP specification says that a test result line is
> 
>   <result> <number> [<description>][ # [<directive>] [<diagnostic data>]]
> 
> and the description of a test can be "any sequence of words
> (can't include #)" which specifies that there may be more than
> one word but does not specify anything other than those words
> which might be used to separate the words which probably isn't
> what we want.  Given that practically we have tests using a range
> of separators for words including combinations of spaces and
> combinations of other symbols like underscores or punctuation
> let's just clarify that the description can contain any character
> other than # (marking the start of the directive/diagnostic) or
> newline (marking the end of this test result).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

-- 
Kees Cook

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-11-17 22:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-17 10:46 [PATCH v1] Documentation: dev-tools: Clarify requirements for result description Mark Brown
2022-11-17 18:18 ` Bird, Tim
2022-11-17 22:36 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2022-11-18  7:18 ` David Gow

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