Re: [PATCH v4 2/8] kunit: drm/tests: move generic helpers

[Matti Vaittinen]

Morning Stephen,

On 3/20/23 21:23, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> Quoting Matti Vaittinen (2023-03-18 23:36:20)
> > > I think you would have an easier time if you just copied and renamed
> > > them into the kunit folder as an preparation series.
> >
> > Yes. That would simplify the syncing between the trees. It slightly bugs
> > me to add dublicate code in kernel-but the clean-up series for DRM users
> > could be prepared at the same time. It would be even possible to just
> > change the drm-helper to be a wrapper for the generic one - and leave
> > the callers intact - although it leaves some seemingly unnecessary
> > "onion code" there.
> >
> > > That way, you wouldn't have to coordinate DRM, CCF and IIO, you'd just
> > > create new helpers that can be reused/converted to by everyone eventually
> >
> > Yes. Thanks - I think I may go with this approach for the v5 :)
>
> Which kunit directory?

I was thinking of adding the platform_device.h (I liked your suggestion) 
in the include/kunit/

> I imagine if there are conflicts they will be
> trivial so it probably doesn't matter.

Probably so. Still, I am not the one who needs to deal with the 
conflicts. Hence I like at least asking if people see good way to avoid 
them in the first place.

Besides, I was not sure if you were planning to add similar helper or 
just wrappers to individual functions. Wanted to ping you just in case 
this has some impact to what you do.

> Have you Cced kunit folks and the
> list on the kunit patches? They may have some opinion.

This patch was should have contained the 
include/kunit/platform_device.h. That file was pulling the Kunit people 
in recipients but I messed up things with last minute changes so both 
the header and people were dropped. I'll fix this for v5.

Yours,
	-- Matti

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Matti Vaittinen
Linux kernel developer at ROHM Semiconductors
Oulu Finland

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