From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>,
Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>,
Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>,
"open list:KERNEL SELFTEST FRAMEWORK"
<linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Kselftest update for Linux 5.4-rc1
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 12:52:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <32d0e94d-bf9a-01e9-2548-1fc976c7f17b@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190923194322.GA55255@gmail.com>
On 9/23/19 12:43 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
>> I am exploring the possibility to move selftests to a better location
>> or add a git alias so it can be found easily. With the addition of
>> KUnit and future work that is planned to connect kselftest and KUnit,
>> it would make sense have selftests to be in a location that is better
>> suited than where it currently resides.
>>
>> I have been getting feedback from some developers that they would like
>> to see selftests more visible and easier to find.
>>
>> There are some dependencies (unintended, shouldn't exist) between some
>> tests and content under tools that might pose some logistical problems,
>> in addition to the churn of backporting.
>>
>> I haven't explored "git alias" yet though. Since this topic of moving
>> came up, I would liek to get feedback on selftests location in general
>> and where would be a good place for it.
>
> I'm not sure about the Git alias thing - but I do agree that
> tools/testing/selftests is a pretty obscure location given the importance
> of kernel unit tests - and I think it could be moved one level higher, to
> tools/selftests? The "selftest" name already implies the "test" aspect
> after all.
Without trying to use too much paint, I would move testing/ to a top-level
dir, outside of tools/, and leave selftest/ under testing/.
--
~Randy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-23 19:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-17 19:26 [GIT PULL] Kselftest update for Linux 5.4-rc1 Shuah Khan
2019-09-20 16:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-09-20 16:26 ` Randy Dunlap
[not found] ` <CAKRRn-edxk9Du70A27V=d3Na73fh=fVvGEVsQRGROrQm05YRrA@mail.gmail.com>
2019-09-20 16:35 ` Brendan Higgins
2019-09-20 16:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-09-20 18:03 ` Brendan Higgins
2019-09-20 18:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-09-20 18:16 ` Brendan Higgins
2019-09-20 18:06 ` Shuah Khan
2019-09-22 11:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-09-22 11:52 ` Greg KH
2019-09-23 14:44 ` Shuah Khan
2019-09-23 19:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-09-23 19:52 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2019-09-23 20:29 ` Shuah Khan
2019-09-23 20:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-09-23 21:11 ` Shuah Khan
2019-09-23 20:08 ` [RFC, Tree] De-clutter the top level directory, move ipc/ => kernel/ipc/, samples/ => Documentation/samples/ and sound/ => drivers/sound/ Ingo Molnar
2019-09-24 11:31 ` [Tree, v2] " Ingo Molnar
2019-09-24 15:28 ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-09-24 18:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-09-25 23:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-09-23 23:54 ` [GIT PULL] Kselftest update for Linux 5.4-rc1 Tim.Bird
2019-09-24 8:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-09-26 12:52 ` David Sterba
2019-09-27 13:52 ` Pavel Machek
2019-10-03 9:08 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-09-22 12:29 Alexey Dobriyan
2019-09-23 22:40 Shuah Khan
2019-09-26 20:10 ` pr-tracker-bot
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