út 2. 9. 2025 v 21:08 odesílatel Crystal Wood <crw...@redhat.com> napsal: > > It would be nice to not depend on an out-of-tree test harness (does > anything else in the kernel use this?), especially without a prominent > comment mentioning it. > > I've just been doing "sudo sh tests/whatever.t". >
Ah, I see, I should document the tests properly, I'll send a patch. To clarify, "make check" uses Test::Harness on the RTLA tests. It's an external tool but it seems it is usually installed on RHEL/Fedora so I went with it. > > Ugh, "prove" looks like it's some sort of formal rv thing... misleading > name for just running a test suite. > Yeah not exactly a good name, I always forget how it is named... > > It already does print the test name. If it didn't I probably would have > made more substantial changes to the test harness :-) > Test::Harness only displays it in verbose mode which is not enabled, since I thought it doesn't look as nice, I was maybe wrong. >> Yes, this is used by kselftests [2], which are written in C. >> > >[2] https://docs.kernel.org/dev-tools/kselftest.html > > Would it make sense for us to use that? > > Though the current docs linking to a wiki that's labelled "obsolete > content" isn't encouraging... > I don't think we need it or it would help us. The RTLA test engine in bash is good enough IMO and customizable. Tomas
