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Message-ID: <b4b1f56b-94c0-4849-a7fc-9228b4e40dc7@notapiano>
Date:   Fri, 11 Aug 2023 10:16:52 -0400
From:   Nícolas F. R. A. Prado 
        <nfraprado@...labora.com>
To:     Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
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 Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 02:54:56PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> 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.

Right, I'm going to need to rewrite it in C for that, but since I already had
the shell script done, I decided to send it as is for the RFC, since I wanted to
get feedback on the general approach more than anything.

Thanks,
Nícolas

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