RE: [RFC v1 06/31] arch: um: enabled running kunit from User Mode Linux

From: Tim.Bird
Date: Wed Oct 17 2018 - 13:52:35 EST




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kieran Bingham
>
> Hi Brendan,
>
> I very excitedly jumped on these patches to try them out, as this is
> essentially something I was trying to do a few weeks back.
>
> On 17/10/18 00:50, Brendan Higgins wrote:
> > Makes minimum number of changes outside of the KUnit directories for
> > KUnit to build and run using UML.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > Makefile | 2 +-
> > arch/um/Kconfig.rest | 3 +++
>
> But this file isn't present on v4.19-rc8
>
> It looks like the file is removed at f163977d21a2 ("um: cleanup Kconfig
> files")
>
> What version have you currently based these patches on?
> Do you expect to keep a branch somewhere that's easy to pull in?
>
> Please add me to the CC list as an interested party on later versions :-)
>
> It might be of interest to the automated testing mailing list too ? (Tim?)

I think this is interesting to groups doing automated testing of the kernel
(including myself) as another set of tests to run. Right now I don't see it
as having any special attributes related to automation. But I could be wrong.
-- Tim