[LTP] [PATCH 0/3] New API: Rename LTP_IPC_PATH -> TST_IPC_PATH

Cyril Hrubis
2021-08-25T09:20:22Z

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.

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Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz