Hi! > +Testing > +------- > + > +A new system call should obviously be tested; it is also useful to provide > +reviewers with a demonstration of how user space programs will use the system > +call. A good way to combine these aims is to include a simple self-test > +program in a new directory under tools/testing/selftests/.
I know that this is a bit off topic, but since the selftest is now the official place to add kernel testcases to let me rant about it a bit. It's a bit of a pain seeing people reinvent the wheel and trying to figure out consistent test interface while most of the problems has been solved in LTP[1] test library quite some time ago. Especially use of the SAFE_MACROS[2] would simplify writing test setups quite a lot. I wonder if we can at least share the test library, pulling it out of LTP, or at least the interesting parts, wouldn't be hard at all. [1] https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/wiki/Test-Writing-Guidelines#221-basic-test-structure [2] https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/wiki/Test-Writing-Guidelines#224-safe-macros -- Cyril Hrubis chru...@suse.cz -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
