linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] kselftest: Add Devicetree unprobed devices test

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Message-ID: <ZNY9sBgzrEQVVQT+@finisterre.sirena.org.uk>
Date:   Fri, 11 Aug 2023 14:54:56 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Nícolas F. R. A. Prado 
        <nfraprado@...labora.com>
Cc:     Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, cocci@...ia.fr,
        Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@...g.fr>,
        kernelci@...ts.linux.dev, Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...ia.fr>,
        Bjorn Andersson <andersson@...nel.org>, kernel@...labora.com,
        Guenter Roeck <groeck@...omium.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] kselftest: Add Devicetree unprobed devices test

On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 04:23:51PM -0400, Nícolas F. R. A. Prado wrote:
> Introduce a new kselftest to detect devices that were declared in the
> Devicetree, and are expected to be probed by a driver, but weren't.
> 
> The test uses two lists: a list of compatibles that can match a
> Devicetree device to a driver, and a list of compatibles that should be
> ignored. The first is automatically generated from a script that parses
> the kernel source using Coccinelle, and will be run as part of building
> this test, therefore Coccinelle is a build-time dependency for this
> test. The list of compatibles to ignore is a hand-crafted list to
> capture the few exceptions of compatibles that are expected to match a
> driver but not be bound to it.

This doesn't appear to produce KTAP output which is going to make it
less useful for generic kselftest runners.

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