Re: [PATCH v2] tests/acpi/bios-tables-test: do not write new blobs unless there are changes

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Nov 07, 2023 at 10:19:51AM +0530, Ani Sinha wrote:
> When dumping table blobs using rebuild-expected-aml.sh, table blobs from all
> test variants are dumped regardless of whether there are any actual changes to
> the tables or not. This creates lot of new files for various test variants that
> are not part of the git repository. This is because we do not check in all table
> blobs for all test variants into the repository. Only those blobs for those
> variants that are different from the generic test-variant agnostic blob are
> checked in.
> 
> This change makes the test smarter by checking if at all there are any changes
> in the tables from the checked-in gold master blobs and take actions
> accordingly.
> 
> When there are no changes:
>  - No new table blobs would be written.
>  - Existing table blobs will be refreshed (git diff will show no changes).
> When there are changes:
>  - New table blob files will be dumped.
>  - Existing table blobs will be refreshed (git diff will show that the files
>    changed, asl diff will show the actual changes).
> When new tables are introduced:
>  - Zero byte empty file blobs for new tables as instructed in the header of
>    bios-tables-test.c will be regenerated to actual table blobs.
> 
> This would make analyzing changes to tables less confusing and there would
> be no need to clean useless untracked files when there are no table changes.
> 
> CC: peter.maydell@linaro.org
> Signed-off-by: Ani Sinha <anisinha@redhat.com>
> ---
>  tests/qtest/bios-tables-test.c | 14 +++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> changelog:
> v2: commit description updated to make things a little clearer.
>     No actual changes.

Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>


With regards,
Daniel
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