[Intel-gfx] [PATCH i-g-t v2 0/2] Kernel selftest plumbing

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Mon Mar 13 10:50:04 UTC 2017


On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 12:43:56PM +0200, Petri Latvala wrote:
> v2 of the series with miscellaneous fixes.
> 
> IGT subtest enumeration must work regardless of what the running
> environment is. Kernel selftest launchers want to expose everything
> the running kernel can execute.
> 
> These two things are mutually exclusive. This series is an attempt for
> a best-of-both-worlds approach: After constructing subtests for
> selftests the running kernel supports (if any), go through the list of
> known kernel selftests and set up a subtest for any such test that
> is missing.
> 
> This will still violate the IGT rule of list enumeration on tests that
> are not present in the selftest headers copied from the kernel
> sources, but we can live with that. Generating static testlists for CI
> use is now possible, and running new selftests without IGT changes
> stays possible.

Still completely lacking justification. The above is a non sequitur;
static testlist generation can be done just from the source.
-Chris

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