linux-kernel - RE: [RFC v1 06/31] arch: um: enabled running kunit from User Mode Linux

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Message-ID: <ECADFF3FD767C149AD96A924E7EA6EAF8052436B@USCULXMSG01.am.sony.com>
Date:   Wed, 17 Oct 2018 17:52:08 +0000
From:   <Tim.Bird@...y.com>
To:     <kieran.bingham@...asonboard.com>, <brendanhiggins@...gle.com>,
        <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, <keescook@...gle.com>,
        <mcgrof@...nel.org>, <shuah@...nel.org>
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        <brakmo@...com>, <rostedt@...dmis.org>, <khilman@...libre.com>,
        <julia.lawall@...6.fr>, <linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org>,
        <kunit-dev@...glegroups.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <jdike@...toit.com>, <richard@....at>,
        <linux-um@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: RE: [RFC v1 06/31] arch: um: enabled running kunit from User Mode
 Linux



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kieran Bingham 
> 
> Hi Brendan,
> 
> I very excitedly jumped on these patches to try them out, as this is
> essentially something I was trying to do a few weeks back.
> 
> On 17/10/18 00:50, Brendan Higgins wrote:
> > Makes minimum number of changes outside of the KUnit directories for
> > KUnit to build and run using UML.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@...gle.com>
> > ---
> >  Makefile             | 2 +-
> >  arch/um/Kconfig.rest | 3 +++
> 
> But this file isn't present on v4.19-rc8
> 
> It looks like the file is removed at f163977d21a2 ("um: cleanup Kconfig
> files")
> 
> What version have you currently based these patches on?
> Do you expect to keep a branch somewhere that's easy to pull in?
> 
> Please add me to the CC list as an interested party on later versions :-)
> 
> It might be of interest to the automated testing mailing list too ? (Tim?)

 I think this is interesting to groups doing automated testing of the kernel
(including myself) as another set of tests to run.  Right now I don't see it
as having any special attributes related to automation.  But I could be wrong.
 -- Tim