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From: Ammar Faizi <[email protected]>
To: Willy Tarreau <[email protected]>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <[email protected]>,
	Pranith Kumar <[email protected]>,
	Alviro Iskandar Setiawan <[email protected]>,
	David Laight <[email protected]>,
	Mark Brown <[email protected]>,
	Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>,
	Shuah Khan <[email protected]>,
	Fernanda Ma'rouf <[email protected]>,
	Linux Kselftest Mailing List <[email protected]>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <[email protected]>,
	GNU/Weeb Mailing List <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/17] nolibc: add preliminary self tests
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 00:05:14 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

On 7/20/22 11:20 PM, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> What I certainly don't want to do is to have to cross-reference IDs
> with arrays, nor start to stack endless if/else that are even more
> painful to deal with, or have to renumber everything by hand once in
> a while.

Noted.

> But again, I'm open to better proposals. I reached the limits of my
> imagination there, but I do value the ability to "yyp" one line, change
> two arguments and gain one extra test for a different combination, and
> I really do not want to lose that simplicity. Note that for more complex
> tests, it's trivial to add a dedicated function and that's what was done
> for getdents64() which also serves as an example.

OK, I understand the reason behind this now. I and Fernanda will try
to visit this again at around 5.20-rc. *If* we can find a better
design that matches your requirements, we will send you an RFC to
improve it too.

Thank you!

-- 
Ammar Faizi



  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-20 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <[email protected]>
2022-07-20 16:03 ` [PATCH 00/17] nolibc: add preliminary self tests Ammar Faizi
2022-07-20 16:20   ` Willy Tarreau
2022-07-20 17:05     ` Ammar Faizi [this message]
2022-07-20 17:14       ` Willy Tarreau

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