Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] kunit: tool: factor exec + parse steps into a function

[Brendan Higgins]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 3:20 PM Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Currently this code is copy-pasted between the normal "run" subcommand
> and the "exec" subcommand.
>
> Given we don't have any interest in just executing the tests without
> giving the user any indication what happened (i.e. parsing the output),
> make a function that does both this things and can be reused.
>
> This will be useful when we allow more complicated ways of running
> tests, e.g. invoking the kernel multiple times instead of just once,
> etc.
>
> We remove input_data from the ParseRequest so the callers don't have to
> pass in a dummy value for this field. Named tuples are also immutable,
> so if they did pass in a dummy, exec_tests() would need to make a copy
> to call parse_tests().
>
> Removing it also makes KunitParseRequest match the other *Request types,
> as they only contain user arguments/flags, not data.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: David Gow <davidgow@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@xxxxxxxxxx>