linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Remove redhat'ism from ftrace selftests.

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Date:	Thu, 5 Mar 2015 10:17:04 -0500
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...emonkey.org.uk>
To:	Shuah Khan <shuahkh@....samsung.com>
Cc:	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove redhat'ism from ftrace selftests.

On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 08:14:42AM -0700, Shuah Khan wrote:
 > On 03/04/2015 06:18 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
 > > On Wed, 2015-03-04 at 21:44 +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
 > >>
 > >> I think that there's no need to even call true or echo..
 > >>
 > >> From 0549544e8e982df6478f11e2b4fe419f94c22434 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
 > >> From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
 > >> Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 21:26:38 +0900
 > >> Subject: [PATCH] ftracetest: Do not use usleep
 > >>
 > >> The usleep is only provided on distros from Redhat so running ftracetest
 > >> on other distro resulted in failures due to the missing usleep.
 > >>
 > >> The reason of using [u]sleep in the test was to generate (scheduler)
 > >> events.  But as we use 'cat trace | grep | wc -l' to read the events,
 > >> the command themselves already generate some events before reading the
 > >> trace file so no need to call [u]sleep explicitly.
 > >>
 > >> Reported-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
 > >> Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@...emonkey.org.uk>
 > >> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
 > > 
 > > Thanks, this is working for me.
 > > 
 > > Tested-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
 > > 
 > 
 > Steve,
 > 
 > Do you want to make a call on which one you want me to take it
 > through between these two patches - one from Dave and the other
 > from Namhyung Kim.
 > 
 > Please send me the patch I have to pull in. Namhyung Kim's patch
 > isn't in the format I can apply and I don't have Dave's patch in
 > my inbox.

Removing it entirely sounds like a much better choice, so I'd
wait for Namhyung to resend.

	Dave

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