netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 8/8] selftests: net: Add port split test

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Date:   Thu, 04 Jun 2020 11:44:09 +0200
From:   Petr Machata <petrm@...lanox.com>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Danielle Ratson <danieller@...lanox.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
        michael.chan@...adcom.com, jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com,
        saeedm@...lanox.com, leon@...nel.org, jiri@...lanox.com,
        idosch@...lanox.com, snelson@...sando.io, drivers@...sando.io,
        andrew@...n.ch, vivien.didelot@...il.com, mlxsw@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 8/8] selftests: net: Add port split test


Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com> writes:

> In general there appears to be no direction from kernel maintainers
> about what scripting language is acceptable for writing selftests. My
> concern over time is that if we all let our preferences pick a scripting
> language, we could make it harder for people to actually run these tests
> when running non mainstream systems and we could start requiring more
> and more interpreters or runtime environments over time.

You make it sound as if we pushed like Ruby or SBCL or S-Lang, or some
craziness like that. Python is a conservative choice in the Linux
kernel. Not as conservative as Bash or C, but still conservative, Python
is used quite a bit, even for selftests (TDC!).