netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 4/4] selftests: add ring and coalesce selftests

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Date:   Wed, 18 Nov 2020 15:19:56 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>
Cc:     Antonio Cardace <acardace@...hat.com>,
        Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>,
        linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 4/4] selftests: add ring and coalesce
 selftests

On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 16:43:33 -0500 Willem de Bruijn wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 12:19 PM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:
> > Sorry I misremembered it's 4. We can leave that as is.  
> 
> Instead of having to remember, maybe we should have a file in
> tools/testing/selftest to define constants?
> 
> I defined them one-off in tools/testing/selftests/net/udpgso_bench.sh
> 
> readonly KSFT_PASS=0
> readonly KSFT_FAIL=1
> readonly KSFT_SKIP=4
> 
> along with some other kselftest shell support infra. But having each
> test figure this out independently is duplicative and error prone.

Sounds like a good idea, I was surprised it wasn't already defined in
any lib.

CCing the selftest ML.