Re: [RFC v3 11/19] kunit: add Python libraries for handing KUnit config and kernel

From: Luis Chamberlain
Date: Thu Nov 29 2018 - 22:44:33 EST


On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 11:36:28AM -0800, Brendan Higgins wrote:
> The ultimate goal is to create minimal isolated test binaries; in the
> meantime we are using UML to provide the infrastructure to run tests, so
> define an abstract way to configure and run tests that allow us to
> change the context in which tests are built without affecting the user.
> This also makes pretty and dynamic error reporting, and a lot of other
> nice features easier.
>
> kunit_config.py:
> - parse .config and Kconfig files.
>
>
> kunit_kernel.py: provides helper functions to:
> - configure the kernel using kunitconfig.

We get the tools to run the config stuff, build, etc, but not a top
level 'make kunitconfig' or whatever. We have things like 'make
kvmconfig' and 'make xenconfig', I think it would be reasonable to
add similar for this.

Luis