Re: RFC - kernel selftest result documentation (KTAP)

From: Kees Cook
Date: Mon Jun 15 2020 - 14:44:11 EST


On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 05:45:28PM +0000, Bird, Tim wrote:
> Personally, as a human I find the space prefix a bit easier to read.
> However, I think that in "normal" kernel log output it is unusual for
> a line to be prefixed with a hash (#), so this might be easier to
> both visually distinguish and for automated parsing.
> So I'm torn. I don't have a strong opinion on space vs. hash prefix
> for indicating sub-test. I think the KUnit convention of matching
> whatever was the prefix of the "TAP version 14" line is clever, but
> it would be nice to just pick a prefix and be done with it.

Are there plans in kernelci for doing any parsing of subtests? (As in,
what do we break if we move from "# " to " "?)

I'm really thinking " " makes sense now. :)

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Kees Cook