linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] kselftest: add fixture parameters

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Message-Id: <20200315.000517.641109897419327751.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Sun, 15 Mar 2020 00:05:17 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     kuba@...nel.org
Cc:     shuah@...nel.org, keescook@...omium.org, luto@...capital.net,
        wad@...omium.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] kselftest: add fixture parameters

From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 17:54:57 -0700

> This set is an attempt to make running tests for different
> sets of data easier. The direct motivation is the tls
> test which we'd like to run for TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3,
> but currently there is no easy way to invoke the same
> tests with different parameters.
> 
> Tested all users of kselftest_harness.h.
> 
> v2:
>  - don't run tests by fixture
>  - don't pass params as an explicit argument
> 
> Note that we loose a little bit of type safety
> without passing parameters as an explicit argument.
> If user puts the name of the wrong fixture as argument
> to CURRENT_FIXTURE() it will happily cast the type.

Hmmm, what tree should integrate this patch series?