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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
	Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
	linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] selftests: rtc: rtctest: Do not open-code TEST_HARNESS_MAIN
Date: Sat, 18 May 2024 13:36:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202405181335.00B6D2F@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240518202354d5422c77@mail.local>

On Sat, May 18, 2024 at 10:23:54PM +0200, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> On 17/05/2024 17:16:58-0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > Argument processing is specific to the test harness code. Any optional
> > information needs to be passed via environment variables. Move alternate
> > path to the RTC_DEV environment variable. Also do not open-code
> > TEST_HARNESS_MAIN because its definition may change.
> 
> Th main issue doing that is that this breaks the main use case of
> rtctest as /dev/rtc1 is usually the main target for those tests. Having
> the RTC_DEV environment variable only documented n this commit message
> is definitively not enough, I'm going to have to handle zillion of
> complaints that this is not working anymore.

Hm, maybe switch the default to /dev/rtc1? Maybe there's a better way to
integrate arguments into a test runner. Right now the core harness code
is doing the argument parsing...

-- 
Kees Cook

      reply	other threads:[~2024-05-18 20:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-05-18  0:16 [PATCH] selftests: rtc: rtctest: Do not open-code TEST_HARNESS_MAIN Kees Cook
2024-05-18 20:23 ` Alexandre Belloni
2024-05-18 20:36   ` Kees Cook [this message]

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