Re: [PATCH 8/8] ktest: Use config-bisect.pl in ktest.pl

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Wed, 04 Oct 2017 15:24:23 -0500
Scott Wood <swood@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2017-10-04 at 15:18 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Sun, 16 Jul 2017 19:16:30 -0500
> > Scott Wood <swood@redhat.com> wrote:
> >   
> > > Reduce code duplication and take advantage of bisection logic
> > > improvements by calling config-bisect.pl.
> > > 
> > > The output of make oldconfig is now copied directly to the desired
> > > file,
> > > rather than doing assign_configs+save_config, in order to preserve
> > > the
> > > ordering so that diffing the configs at the end will provide useful
> > > output.  
> > 
> > The reason I never did this, was that I copy ktest.pl all over the
> > place :-/ I need it to be a stand alone. I don't copy config-bisect
> > around. Not sure how to deal with this.  
> 
> By "this" I assume you mean using the external config-bisect code,
> rather than the part about copying oldconfig output?
> 
> The options I can see are to copy both files as a group (possibly making
> that easier by renaming config-bisect.pl to ktest-conf-bisect.pl, so you
> can "cp tools/testing/ktest/ktest*.pl <dest>"), or just living with code
> duplication.  In a previous discussion you suggested you preferred that
> latter option, though in that case the config bisect logic changes
> should ideally be done before the fork.

I don't want to rename it. I like the simply "config-bisect.pl" name.

> 
> It should also be noted that ktest.pl only depends on config-bisect.pl
> if a config bisect is being performed, so other ktest.pl functions still
> work standalone.

I thought about this too, and may be able to live with that. Perhaps we
should make the config-bisect internals into something that can be a
perl library, and be able to place that someplace that both could use?

-- Steve