[Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH] lib: kunit: add test_min_heap test conversion to KUnit

[peterz at infradead.org]

On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 10:46:21AM -0300, Vitor Massaru Iha wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 10:25 AM <peterz at infradead.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 06:57:17PM -0300, Vitor Massaru Iha wrote:
> >
> > > The results can be seen this way:
> > >
> > > This is an excerpt from the test.log with the result in TAP format:
> > > [snip]
> > > ok 5 - example
> > >     # Subtest: min-heap
> > >     1..6
> > >     ok 1 - test_heapify_all_true
> > >     ok 2 - test_heapify_all_false
> > >     ok 3 - test_heap_push_true
> > >     ok 4 - test_heap_push_false
> > >     ok 5 - test_heap_pop_push_true
> > >     ok 6 - test_heap_pop_push_false
> > > [snip]

So ^ is TAP format?

> > I don't care or care to use either; what does dmesg do? It used to be
> > that just building the self-tests was sufficient and any error would
> > show in dmesg when you boot the machine.
> >
> > But if I now have to use some damn tool, this is a regression.
> 
> If you don't want to, you don't need to use the kunit-tool. If you
> compile the tests as builtin and run the Kernel on your machine
> the test result will be shown in dmesg in TAP format.

That's seems a lot more verbose than it is now. I've recently even done
a bunch of tests that don't print anything on success, dmesg is clutter
enough already.