On Fri, 2013-04-12 at 15:09 -0400, Don Zickus wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Throwing this over the wall for a new round of reviewing. > > Recently a bunch of autotest and beaker folks have been discussing how to get > an autotest client working under beaker (namely Nick, Dan, Bill from beaker > and > Lucas, Cleber, Ademar from autotest). > > A long time ago Jan Stancek whipped up some code to do that based on some > discussions we both had. I later modified a bunch of his code and came up > with > these patches. > > I lasted touched these patches back in August 2012. I never finished > polishing > them off or completed my testing due to other Red Hat obligations. > > I am presenting these patches as a starting point for discussions as to how > Jan > and myself solved various problems. They are very much 'beta' patches (there > has been a lot of testing so they were stable at one point). > > Unfortunately, I don't remember how all the pieces worked so instead of > breaking the files into digestable chunks, I am just submitting whole files as > new (well the first patch is a 'patch'). > > Please be kind. I am cross-posting to various mailing lists to let anyone > interested participate. > > The end goal is to have autotest client work with the beaker server smoothly. > This would allow various autotest projects to leverage the > provisioning/inventorying mechanisms provided by beaker for various labs. > > Feel free to direct all questions to me and I will do my best to remember what > Jan and myself did. > > I started running our internal kernel testsuite to get more live coverage of > these > changes. Things work for the most part. Reboot still has a bunch of issues, > namely the 'autotest --continue' needs work done. :-( > > I add some initial support to handle legacy beaker commands to talk with the > server. I expect to simplify it later. > > v2: re-coded to use beaker's new stable API > thinned things out, added support for debug env > more testing > cleaned up coding style and syntax based on Lucas's feedback > > v3: cleanup based on Lucas's feedback > reworked file uploading to deal with reboot state > little fixes from more testing
Thanks Don, I'll be checking this new version Real Soon (TM). Cheers, Lucas _______________________________________________ Autotest-kernel mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/autotest-kernel
