linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 8/8] ktest: Use config-bisect.pl in ktest.pl

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Date:   Thu, 05 Oct 2017 18:18:54 -0500
From:   Scott Wood <swood@...hat.com>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] ktest: Use config-bisect.pl in ktest.pl

On Thu, 2017-10-05 at 08:50 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Oct 2017 15:24:23 -0500
> Scott Wood <swood@...hat.com> wrote:
> 
> > It should also be noted that ktest.pl only depends on config-
> > bisect.pl
> > if a config bisect is being performed, so other ktest.pl functions
> > still
> > work standalone.
> 
> I thought about this too, and may be able to live with that. Perhaps
> we
> should make the config-bisect internals into something that can be a
> perl library, and be able to place that someplace that both could use?

I'm not familiar with how Perl libraries work -- how would they solve
this problem?  If you're talking about having to install the library
into some location outside the kernel tree, that seems contrary to the
desire to have a lightweight tool that can be copied around.  If not,
how would it be any better than depending on a callable script?

-Scott