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[24.9.64.241]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id z10sm2267650iog.41.2019.09.23.13.29.24 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 23 Sep 2019 13:29:24 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Kselftest update for Linux 5.4-rc1 To: Randy Dunlap , Ingo Molnar Cc: Greg KH , Linus Torvalds , Brendan Higgins , Mark Brown , Jarkko Sakkinen , Anders Roxell , "open list:KERNEL SELFTEST FRAMEWORK" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Shuah Khan References: <20190922112555.GB122003@gmail.com> <20190922115247.GA2679387@kroah.com> <0ab5da69-e4f2-8990-20f9-354461235581@linuxfoundation.org> <20190923194322.GA55255@gmail.com> <32d0e94d-bf9a-01e9-2548-1fc976c7f17b@infradead.org> From: Shuah Khan Message-ID: Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 14:29:23 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <32d0e94d-bf9a-01e9-2548-1fc976c7f17b@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 9/23/19 1:52 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On 9/23/19 12:43 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: >> >> * Shuah Khan 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. > Right. Obscure location given the importance is the problem. > > Without trying to use too much paint, I would move testing/ to a top-level > dir, outside of tools/, and leave selftest/ under testing/. > Right. What you suggesting is very similar to and more complete than what I have been thinking about and proposed at the KS kselftest track. i.e move tools/testing/selftests to kselftest at the root level. I like your idea of moving tools/testing up to root and keep selftests under it. If we are good with this kind of change, I would like to get this done sooner than later. There is some back-porting churn to worry about. thanks, -- Shuah