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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	mingo@redhat.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add lib/glob.c
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 16:03:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140512160351.c0f7b25d7fa79e1cb19d6a79@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140510122138.GA4721@mtj.dyndns.org>

On Sat, 10 May 2014 08:21:38 -0400 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> wrote:

> > +int
> > +main(void)
> > +{
> > +	size_t i;
> > +
> > +	for (i = 0; i < sizeof(tests)/sizeof(*tests); i++)
> > +		test(tests + i);
> > +
> > +	return 0;
> > +}
> > +
> > +#endif	/* UNITTEST */
> 
> Again, I don't really think the userland testing code belongs here.
> If you wanna keep them, please make it in-kernel selftesting.  We
> don't really wanna keep code which can't get built and tested in
> kernel tree proper.

If the tests don't measurably increase boot times we could run them
unconditionally at boot.  Mark everything __init/__initdata and
the costs are very low.  lib/plist.c does this.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-05-12 23:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20140313121032.GA9981@htj.dyndns.org>
2014-05-10  3:13 ` George Spelvin
2014-05-10  3:14   ` [PATCH 2/2] libata: Use glob_match from lib/glob.c George Spelvin
2014-05-10 12:21   ` [PATCH 1/2] Add lib/glob.c Tejun Heo
2014-05-11  6:02     ` George Spelvin
2014-05-12 23:03     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2014-05-10 12:23   ` Tejun Heo
2014-05-10 14:03     ` George Spelvin
2014-05-10 17:22       ` Randy Dunlap
2014-05-10 17:29   ` Randy Dunlap
2014-05-11 12:36     ` Tejun Heo
2014-06-07  2:44       ` [PATCH v2 1/3] " George Spelvin
2014-06-07  2:49         ` [PATCH v2 2/3] lib: glob.c: Add CONFIG_GLOB_SELFTEST George Spelvin
2014-06-11 23:04           ` Andrew Morton
2014-06-12  1:38             ` George Spelvin
2014-06-07  2:50         ` [PATCH v2 3/3] libata: Use glob_match from lib/glob.c George Spelvin

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