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From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: Fubo Chen <fubo.chen@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] selftests: New very basic kernel selftests directory
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 02:49:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120117014924.GC24200@somewhere.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJAFBLCP=4_nuExevTsyuVOBw4BH0h7Gk=qQqaOFxohZafwRbA@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 06:54:27PM +0000, Fubo Chen wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Bring a new kernel selftests directory in tools/testing/selftests.
> 
> Interesting ... but why to invent a test framework from scratch while
> there already exists stuff like googletest or TAP::Harness ?

We wanted to start with something very simple that just launch
selftests in batch.

Let's see first where this goes, if this becomes a useful subsystem that
grows up, then if it makes sense to rely on some more elaborated selftest
framework we can think about it.

      reply	other threads:[~2012-01-17  1:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-02 15:41 [PATCH 1/2] selftests: New very basic kernel selftests directory Frederic Weisbecker
2011-12-02 15:41 ` [PATCH 2/2] selftests: New x86 breakpoints selftest Frederic Weisbecker
2011-12-07 23:32   ` Andrew Morton
2011-12-08  0:11     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-12-12  6:06   ` K.Prasad
2012-01-13 18:54 ` [PATCH 1/2] selftests: New very basic kernel selftests directory Fubo Chen
2012-01-17  1:49   ` Frederic Weisbecker [this message]

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