From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Petr Vorel Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2021 12:23:44 +0200 Subject: [LTP] [PATCH 0/3] New API: Rename LTP_IPC_PATH -> TST_IPC_PATH In-Reply-To: References: <20210825080933.12949-1-pvorel@suse.cz> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ltp@lists.linux.it Hi Cyril, Joerg, > Hi! > > > As it is it's pretty clear where the environment variable comes from, if > > > we rename it to TST_IPC_PATH it's not obvious that this has been > > > exported by LTP test. > > I was thinking about it as well (just forget to write that into cover letter). > > > Generally things that are visible on the running system tends to be > > > prefixed with LTP_ or ltp_ rather than TST_ or tst_... > > Sure. I just thought that LTP_ is for variables which are expected to be set by > > user. But let's keep the old name. How about the first commit (cleanup)? > There is no such rule I guess. > It has been case by case, for instance we do have KCONFIG_PATH which we > agreed on with the testing community to be a canonical variable name > that is shared between different frameworks. Ah, thanks for info. Obviously there cannot be rules for everything :). Thanks both for your time. Kind regards, Petr