Re: [PATCH v6 05/10] nvmet: implement namespace identify descriptor list

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 03:33:11AM +0000, Chaitanya Kulkarni wrote:
> Right now I'm keeping the framework under "${KDIR}/tools/testing/selftests/", please let me know if that is not a desirable directory.

Heh, Johannes and I just had a discussion on the test framework
locations last weekend over a beer.

Both of us agree that a separate repository would be much preferable,
mostly due to two reasons:

 - it allows people that backport changes (e.g. distros) to always
   run the latests test suite without having to backport it as well,
   and have one test suite config for all branches
 - ease of running it from a VM or initramfs instead of having to
   download the whole kernel tree or copying things out

Last but not least it also seems a little easier to get started that
way.