[Intel-gfx] [RFC i-g-t 1/2] extended.testlist: Remove default and render engine test duplicates

[Tvrtko Ursulin]

On 22/06/2017 10:54, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 12:55 PM, Tvrtko Ursulin <tursulin at ursulin.net> wrote:
>> From: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at intel.com>
>>
>> Where there is both default and render for the same test,
>> remove the former to save some execution time.
> 
> If they are redundant, why do we even have them? Can we just remove

Maybe we can remove the default entry from intel_execution_engines 
array? And just test that default == render explicitly in a few short tests.

> the testcase itself? Accumulating unused tests of questionable use at
> best in igt is serious pain, because it means we never can get to a
> world where new testcases are auto-added to CI withou some manual
> review. And that's the world of pain we live in now and I really want
> to get out of it. That means reviewing and removing testcases, not
> massaging courated testlists forever, I don't think we have the time
> for that among all the other tasks.
> 
> </rant> :-)

I am not a fan of the testlist neither, but thought to avoid letting 
perfect being the enemy of good, and at least do something until the 
final solution crystallizes.

Regards,

Tvrtko