Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] lib: glob.c: Add CONFIG_GLOB_SELFTEST

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On 6 Jun 2014 22:49:28 -0400 "George Spelvin" <linux@horizon.com> wrote:

> This was useful during development, and is retained for future regression
> testing.
> 
> GCC appears to have no way to place string literals in a particular
> section; adding __initconst to a char pointer leaves the string itself
> in the default string section, where it will not be thrown away after
> module load.
> 
> Thus all string constants are kept in explicitly declared and named
> arrays.  Sorry this makes printk a bit harder to read.  At least the
> tests are more compact.
> 
> Signed-off-by: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
> ---
> Persuading GCC to throw away *all* the self-test data after running
> it was surprisingly annoying.

Yeah.  Props for making the attempt.

> The one thing I'm not really sure about is what to do if the self-test
> fails.  For now, I make the module_init function fail too.  Opinions?

The printk should suffice - someone will notice it eventually.

Using KERN_ERR to report a failure might help draw attention to it.