linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] Add livepatch kselftests

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Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.21.1804121526110.4758@pobox.suse.cz>
Date:   Thu, 12 Apr 2018 15:28:59 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>
To:     Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@...hat.com>
cc:     live-patching@...r.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Libor Pecháček <lpechacek@...e.com>,
        Nicolai Stange <nstange@...e.de>,
        Artem Savkov <asavkov@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Add livepatch kselftests

> Questions for v3:
> 
>   - Should we split off the atomic replace and shadow variable update
>     tests so that the this patchset could be merged before the ones
>     listed above?

What Josh said. If we merge it almost together, there is no need to split 
it.
 
>   - I didn't remove any of the sample modules.  If anyone thinks any of
>     them should go, let me know.  They serve as nice, simple examples so
>     I thought they should all stay.

Ok

>   - Module naming convention: to make the test script easier to grep
>     module names and filenames, I broke with livepatch convention and
>     used underscores instead of dashes.  I didn't think it worth the
>     regex foo to flip back and forth in the test script.

Ok

Miroslav