[LTP] [RFC][PATCH 1/3] network: run network tests from network.sh

[Alexey Kodanev <alexey.kodanev@oracle.com>]

Hi,
On 05/16/2016 03:47 PM, Cyril Hrubis wrote:
> Hi!
>> This does not say what is the reason for this change.
>>
>> How is this better than runing runtest files from runltp?
>>
>> You supposedly define a few variables in the script that starts the
>> testcases rather than having a common script that is sourced at the
>> start of the network testcases. Is there any other thing I'm missing?
> Looking into the networkstress.sh and networktest.sh it starts ltp-pan
> itself as well. So this more or less copies the functionality from there
> to network.sh.

Yeah, just making the one as I don't see the point of having two,
almost equal, scripts.

>
> I would say that the defaults for variables should not be defined in the
> script that runs selected (subset of) tests. That is because it should
> be possible to run just the test script and expect it to have the same
> defaults as when it's executed via the script. Why don't we stick the
> defaults to test_net.sh and keep just the code that selects testcases
> to run and start ltp-pan in the network.sh?
>

Agree, we can do that, there will be no difference when running them from
network.sh, and it will be possible to run tests individually with already
pre-defined default variables.

Thanks,
Alexey