linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kunit: tool: make `build` subcommand also reconfigure if needed

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Message-ID: <CAFd5g47JTNJbA65586gRTimBjSyvvO=UzT1f7_zPKpy2=93q7Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 7 Dec 2021 18:00:50 -0500
From:   Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@...gle.com>
To:     Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@...gle.com>
Cc:     davidgow@...gle.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kunit-dev@...glegroups.com, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
        skhan@...uxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kunit: tool: make `build` subcommand also reconfigure if needed

On Thu, Dec 2, 2021 at 3:39 PM Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> If I created a kunitconfig file that was incomplete, then
> $ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py build --kunitconfig=my_kunitconfig
> would silently drop all the options with unmet dependencies!
>
> This is because it doesn't do the config check that `kunit.py config`
> does.
>
> So if I want to safely build a kernel for testing, I have to do
> $ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py config <flags>
> $ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py build <flags, again>
>
> It seems unlikely that any user of kunit.py would want the current
> `build` semantics.
> So make it effectively do `kunit.py config` + `kunit.py build`.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@...gle.com>

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