Re: [PATCH v3 3/7] kunit: tests for stats_fs API

[Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito]

> > In order to run them, the kernel .config must set CONFIG_KUNIT=y
> > and a new .kunitconfig file must be created with CONFIG_STATS_FS=y
> > and CONFIG_STATS_FS_TEST=y
>
> It looks like CONFIG_STATS_FS is built-in, but it exports
> much of the functionality you are testing.  However could the
> tests also be built as a module (i.e. make CONFIG_STATS_FS_TEST
> a tristate variable)? To test this you'd need to specify
> CONFIG_KUNIT=m and CONFIG_STATS_FS_TEST=m, and testing would
> simply be a case of "modprobe"ing the stats fs module and collecting
> results in /sys/kernel/debug/kunit/<module_name> (rather
> than running kunit.py). Are you relying on unexported internals in
> the the tests that would prevent building them as a module?

I haven't checked it yet, but tests should work as separate module.
I will look into it, thanks.

Emanuele