linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] kunit: tool: Mark 'kunittest

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Message-ID: <CAFd5g44CxPuXbHund397PJSQPHGhWy1-7ij7JnJNzCO0NF6dCA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 21 Oct 2020 14:32:52 -0700
From:   Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@...gle.com>
To:     SeongJae Park <sjpark@...zon.com>
Cc:     SeongJae Park <sjpark@...zon.de>,
        Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "open list:KERNEL SELFTEST FRAMEWORK" 
        <linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org>,
        KUnit Development <kunit-dev@...glegroups.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] kunit: tool: Mark 'kunittest_config' as constant again

On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 3:27 AM SeongJae Park <sjpark@...zon.com> wrote:
>
> From: SeongJae Park <sjpark@...zon.de>
>
> 'kunit_kernel.kunittest_config' was constant at first, and therefore it
> used UPPER_SNAKE_CASE naming convention that usually means it is
> constant in Python world.  But, commit e3212513a8f0 ("kunit: Create
> default config in '--build_dir'") made it modifiable to fix a use case
> of the tool and thus the naming also changed to lower_snake_case.
> However, this resulted in a confusion.  As a result, some successing
> changes made the tool unittest fail, and a fix[1] of it again incurred
> the '--build_dir' use case failure.
>
> As the previous commit fixed the '--build_dir' use case without
> modifying the variable again, this commit marks the variable as constant
> again with UPPER_SNAKE_CASE, to reduce future confusions.
>
> [1] Commit d43c7fb05765 ("kunit: tool: fix improper treatment of file location")
>
> Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@...zon.de>

Reviewed-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@...gle.com>

Thanks for this! This is something I meant to fix a while ago and forgot about.

One minor issue, this patch does not apply on torvalds/master right
now. Could you please rebase this?