On 15 April 2015 at 04:08, Taras Kondratiuk <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 04/15/2015 05:29 AM, Mike Holmes wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 14 April 2015 at 16:21, Maxim Uvarov <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>>     On 04/14/15 22:59, Mike Holmes wrote:
>>
>>         The shm test is obsolte, remove it
>>
>>     Why is it obsolete?
>>
>>
>> A few reasons
>>
>> It is never called and hence it is not maintained and it core dumps, I
>> dont know how many releases that has been true but it is now, but
>> fundamentally it is nowhere near as comprehensive a test as we have in
>> validation and so it is no longer necessary.
>>
>> Additionally we need to move or delete everything in api_test becasue
>> that whole directory is obsolete. The only thing I plan to save is the
>> ring test which needs to migrate to validation and or the performance
>> test unless we transition the ring code inside Linux-generic as
>> suggested today.
>>
>
> Our validation tests should validate only ODP API.
> Rings don't belong to API.
>

That is also part of the current discussion about what helpers are.
I hope to work towards resolving that, helpers are currently not part of
the official API, they are helpers, but we have helpers that are heavily
used - eth.h etc and those like ring that are not used at all.


-- 
Mike Holmes
Technical Manager - Linaro Networking Group
Linaro.org <http://www.linaro.org/> *│ *Open source software for ARM SoCs
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