On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 4:26 AM frowand.list@gmail.com wrote:
From: Frank Rowand frank.rowand@sony.com
An August 2021 RFC patch [1] to create the KTAP Specification resulted in some discussion of possible items to add to the specification. The conversation ended without completing the document.
Progress resumed with a December 2021 RFC patch [2] to add a KTAP Specification file (Version 1) to the Linux kernel. Many of the suggestions from the August 2021 discussion were not included in Version 1. This patch series is intended to revisit some of the suggestions from the August 2021 discussion.
Thanks for kicking this off again. There were definitely a lot of good ideas in those threads which we haven't got to yet.
I think there is an interesting line to walk between keeping KTAP sufficiently "TAP-like" (particularly w/r/t being able to reuse existing TAP parsers), and actually adding features, but I don't recall seeing many such issues in the previous threads.
Patch 1 changes the Specification version to "2-rc" to indicate that following patches are not yet accepted into a final version 2.
I'm okay with this, though I'd want us to be a little careful with the timing so we don't end up with, for example, 5.18 having a KTAP spec called 2-rc which is functionally indistinguishable from v1.
Patch 2 is an example of a simple change to the Specification. The change does not change the content of the Specification, but updates a formatting directive as suggested by the Documentation maintainer.
Thanks -- personally, I'd rather this change _does_ go in straight away, even before the 2-rc renaming.
I intend to take some specific suggestions from the August 2021 discussion to create stand-alone RFC patches to the Specification instead of adding them as additional patches in this series. The intent is to focus discussion on a single area of the Specification in each patch email thread.
Seems like a sensible way to structure the discussion. It could get a little bit messy if there end up being merge conflicts, but the whole thing could be collapsed into a single patchset later if that ended up making more sense. (Though that might remove the need for the "rc" version, depending on exactly when and how it happened.)
I'd also be curious to see patches to tests and/or test parsers to show off any particularly compatibility-breaking and/or interesting changes, though I don't think that _has_ to be a prerequisite for discussion or the spec.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/CA+GJov6tdjvY9x12JsJT14qn6c7NViJxqaJk+r-K1YJzPggFD... [2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211207190251.18426-1-davidgow@google.com
Frank Rowand (2): Documentation: dev-tools: KTAP spec change version to 2-rc Documentation: dev-tools: use literal block instead of code-block
Documentation/dev-tools/ktap.rst | 20 +++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
-- Frank Rowand frank.rowand@sony.com
Cheers, -- David