Re: [PATCH] tests/qtest: npcm7xx-emc-test: Skip checking MAC

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 06/09/2022 18.31, Patrick Venture wrote:
> The register tests walks all the registers to verify they are initially
> 0 when appropriate.  However, if the MAC address is set in the register
>    space, this should not be checked against 0.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Hao Wu <wuhaotsh@google.com>
> Change-Id: I02426e39bdab33ceedd42c49d233e8680d4ec058

What's that change-id good for?

> Signed-off-by: Patrick Venture <venture@google.com>
> ---
>   tests/qtest/npcm7xx_emc-test.c | 3 ++-
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tests/qtest/npcm7xx_emc-test.c b/tests/qtest/npcm7xx_emc-test.c
> index 7c435ac915..207d8515b7 100644
> --- a/tests/qtest/npcm7xx_emc-test.c
> +++ b/tests/qtest/npcm7xx_emc-test.c
> @@ -378,7 +378,8 @@ static void test_init(gconstpointer test_data)
>   
>   #undef CHECK_REG
>   
> -    for (i = 0; i < NUM_CAMML_REGS; ++i) {
> +    /* Skip over the MAC address registers, which is BASE+0 */
> +    for (i = 1; i < NUM_CAMML_REGS; ++i) {
>           g_assert_cmpuint(emc_read(qts, mod, REG_CAMM_BASE + i * 2), ==,
>                            0);
>           g_assert_cmpuint(emc_read(qts, mod, REG_CAML_BASE + i * 2), ==,

Basically ack, but one question: Where should that non-zero MAC address come 
from / when did you hit a problem here? If QEMU is started without any mac 
settings at all (like it is done here), the register never contains a 
non-zero value, does it?

  Thomas