Re: RFC - kernel selftest result documentation (KTAP)

On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 08:37:18PM +0000, Bird, Tim wrote:

One thing that needs to be rationalized between KUnit and selftest is the syntax for subtests. KUnit follows the TAP14 spec, and starts subtests with indented "# Subtest: name of the child test" and selftests just indents the output from the child test, so it starts with indented "TAP version 13". One issue I have with the TAP14/KUnit approach is that the output from the child is different depending on whether the test is called in the context of another test or not.

Right -- I'd *really* like the subtests to be "separable", since the primary issue is actually that a subtest may not know it is a subtest, and passing that knowledge in may be difficult/disruptive.