From: Ammar Faizi <ammarfaizi2@gnuweeb.org>
To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>,
Alviro Iskandar Setiawan <alviro.iskandar@gnuweeb.org>,
David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>,
Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
Fernanda Ma'rouf <fernandafmr12@gnuweeb.org>,
Linux Kselftest Mailing List <linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
GNU/Weeb Mailing List <gwml@vger.gnuweeb.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/17] nolibc: add preliminary self tests
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 00:05:14 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee428948-eaea-49bd-d8a3-c054a57f0094@gnuweeb.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220720162054.GB4159@1wt.eu>
On 7/20/22 11:20 PM, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> What I certainly don't want to do is to have to cross-reference IDs
> with arrays, nor start to stack endless if/else that are even more
> painful to deal with, or have to renumber everything by hand once in
> a while.
Noted.
> But again, I'm open to better proposals. I reached the limits of my
> imagination there, but I do value the ability to "yyp" one line, change
> two arguments and gain one extra test for a different combination, and
> I really do not want to lose that simplicity. Note that for more complex
> tests, it's trivial to add a dedicated function and that's what was done
> for getdents64() which also serves as an example.
OK, I understand the reason behind this now. I and Fernanda will try
to visit this again at around 5.20-rc. *If* we can find a better
design that matches your requirements, we will send you an RFC to
improve it too.
Thank you!
--
Ammar Faizi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-20 17:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-19 21:44 [PATCH 00/17] nolibc: add preliminary self tests Willy Tarreau
2022-07-19 21:44 ` [PATCH 01/17] tools/nolibc: make argc 32-bit in riscv startup code Willy Tarreau
2022-07-19 21:44 ` [PATCH 02/17] tools/nolibc: fix build warning in sys_mmap() when my_syscall6 is not defined Willy Tarreau
2022-07-19 21:44 ` [PATCH 03/17] tools/nolibc: make sys_mmap() automatically use the right __NR_mmap definition Willy Tarreau
2022-07-19 21:44 ` [PATCH 04/17] selftests/nolibc: add basic infrastructure to ease creation of nolibc tests Willy Tarreau
2022-07-19 21:44 ` [PATCH 05/17] selftests/nolibc: support a test definition format Willy Tarreau
2022-07-19 21:44 ` [PATCH 06/17] selftests/nolibc: implement a few tests for various syscalls Willy Tarreau
2022-07-19 21:44 ` [PATCH 07/17] selftests/nolibc: add a few tests for some libc functions Willy Tarreau
2022-07-19 21:44 ` [PATCH 07/17] selftests/nolibc: add a few tests for some stdlib functions Willy Tarreau
2022-07-19 21:44 ` [PATCH 08/17] selftests/nolibc: exit with poweroff on success when getpid() == 1 Willy Tarreau
2022-07-19 21:44 ` [PATCH 09/17] selftests/nolibc: on x86, support exiting with isa-debug-exit Willy Tarreau
2022-07-19 21:44 ` [PATCH 10/17] selftests/nolibc: recreate and populate /dev and /proc if missing Willy Tarreau
2022-07-19 21:44 ` [PATCH 11/17] selftests/nolibc: condition some tests on /proc existence Willy Tarreau
2022-07-19 21:44 ` [PATCH 12/17] selftests/nolibc: support glibc as well Willy Tarreau
2022-07-19 21:44 ` [PATCH 13/17] selftests/nolibc: add a "kernel" target to build the kernel with the initramfs Willy Tarreau
2022-07-19 21:44 ` [PATCH 14/17] selftests/nolibc: add a "defconfig" target Willy Tarreau
2022-07-19 21:44 ` [PATCH 15/17] selftests/nolibc: add a "run" target to start the kernel in QEMU Willy Tarreau
2022-07-19 21:44 ` [PATCH 16/17] selftests/nolibc: "sysroot" target installs a local copy of the sysroot Willy Tarreau
2022-07-19 21:44 ` [PATCH 17/17] selftests/nolibc: add a "help" target Willy Tarreau
2022-07-19 22:49 ` [PATCH 00/17] nolibc: add preliminary self tests Paul E. McKenney
2022-07-20 3:26 ` Willy Tarreau
2022-07-20 16:03 ` Ammar Faizi
2022-07-20 16:20 ` Willy Tarreau
2022-07-20 17:05 ` Ammar Faizi [this message]
2022-07-20 17:14 ` Willy Tarreau
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