Re: [PATCH net-next RFC] selftests/net: integrate packetdrill with ksft

[Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>]

Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Aug 2024 14:47:43 -0400 Willem de Bruijn wrote:
> > > We have directories in net/lib, and it's a target, and it works, no?  
> > 
> > net/lib is not a TARGET in tools/testing/selftests/Makefile. Its
> > Makefile only generates dependencies for other targets: TEST_FILES,
> > TEST_GEN_FILES and TEST_INCLUDES.
> 
> Oh right, TEST_FILES vs TEST_INCLUDES :(
> 
> Looks like only x86 does some weird stuff and prepends $(OUTPUT) to all
> test names. Otherwise the only TEST_NAME with a / in it is
> 
> x86_64/nx_huge_pages_test.sh

Oh interesting precedent. Let me take a look.

> But then again maybe we should give up on the idea of using directories?
> Use some separator like --, I mean:
> 
> mv packetdrill/tcp/inq/client.pkt packetdrill/tcp--inq--client.pkt
> 
> Assuming we're moving forward with the interpreter idea we don't need
> directories for multi-threading, just for organization. Which perhaps
> isn't worth the time investment? Given that we'd mostly interact with
> these tests via UI which will flatten it all back?

That's definitely simpler :)

I'd like to keep diffs between packetdrill scripts on github (and
Google internal, we have more) and selftests to a minimum. This is
invertible, as is rewriting source statements inside the pkt files.
But that might be more work and more maintenance in the end.