hi Thomas,
Please do not top-post and trim your replies.
Thanks, I learned about this netiquette today. I hope this reply is in the correct format.
The point John was making:
So it might be worth looking into getting the output to be happy with TAP while you're tweaking things here.
The kernel selftests are converting over to standardized TAP output format, which is intended to aid automated testing.
So if we change the outpot format of this test, then we switch it over to TAP format and do not invent yet another randomized output scheme.
oh okay, please ignore this patch. no need to review it further.
For the success case, the actual numbers are uninteresting. In the failure case it's sufficient to emit:
ksft_test_result_fail("Req: NNNN, Exp: $MMMM, Res: $LLLL\n", ...);In case of regressions (fail), a report providing this output is good enough for the relevant maintainer/developer to start investigating No?
yes understood, thanks for the explanation.
Thanks, Vishal