Re: [GIT PULL] Kselftest update for Linux 5.4-rc1

Brendan Higgins
2019-09-20T16:35:20Z

On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 9:27 AM Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Linus,
>
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2019, 10:18 AM Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 12:26 PM Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > This Kselftest update for Linux 5.4-rc1 consists of several fixes to
>> > existing tests and adds KUnit, a lightweight unit testing and mocking
>> > framework for the Linux kernel from Brendan Higgins.
>>
>> So I pulled this, but then I almost immediately unpulled it.
>>
>> My reason for doing that may be odd, but it's because of the top-level
>> 'kunit' directory. This shouldn't be on the top level.
>>
>> The reason I react so strongly is that it actually breaks my finger
>> memory. I don't type out filenames - I auto-compete them. So "kernel/"
>> is "k<tab>", "drivers/" is "d<tab>" etc.
>>
>> It already doesn't work for everything ("mm/" is actually "mm<tab>"
>> not because we have files in the git tree, but because the build
>> creates various "module" files), but this breaks a common pattern for
>> me.

Sorry about that. I am surprised that none of the other reviewers
brought this up.

> On hindsight, I probably should have run this by you to get your feedback.
>
>> > In the future KUnit will be linked to Kselftest framework to provide
>> > a way to trigger KUnit tests from user-space.
>>
>> Can the kernel parts please move to lib/kunit/ or something like that.

I'm fine with lib/kunit/.

> I will work with Brendan and come up with a plan and send another request early next week.

Cheers