On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 7:24 AM, Ricardo Salveti <[email protected]
> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 2:29 AM, Dave Pigott <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > On 23 Feb 2012, at 19:38, Ricardo Salveti wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 6:47 AM, Dave Pigott <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>> As far as I understand it, the test definition specifies the device
> tags
> >>> that it requires, and the scheduler pushes the job to an appropriately
> >>> tagged board. That said, I haven't tried it myself. We now have several
> >>> boards with audio-loopback and usb-flash-drive tags enabled, more will
> be
> >>> added as they come offline.
> >>
> >> Great, need to give the usb test a try!
> >>
> >> Should we also add tags like wifi and bluetooth for the boards we
> >> have? I know these features are locked per board type, but it might
> >> also make sense to add the specific capabilities as tags as well.
> >>
> >
> > I bought this up at Connect, but the general feeling was that you
> wouldn't target a test at a board type that didn't support that
> functionality.
>
> But then we would not cover the test case where someone would just
> like to run a bluetooth test, without actually depending on a board
> type. Without the tags, it'd be hard to know if the test case should
> run on an imx53 board or not.
>
> As it'd be easy to add and maintain such tags, I don't see why we
> shouldn't allow that.
>
>
I like the idea of explicitely tagging our board types with a default set
of hardware features available...

why wouldn't we do that?

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