[LTP] [PATCH] doc: Add very simple library API writing guidelines docs
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz
Thu Oct 17 14:08:30 CEST 2019
Hi!
> Feel free to write more useful docs than my stub.
It's a good stub actually, there is a lot that is not described at all.
We should probably draft a longer readme that describes why we also
have a mechanism for additional libraries in place and when to use it.
Generally we lack a lot of documentation.
Now we only need someone to volunteer to write it down.
> [1] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1151766/
>
> doc/library-api-writing-guidelines.txt | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 doc/library-api-writing-guidelines.txt
>
> diff --git a/doc/library-api-writing-guidelines.txt b/doc/library-api-writing-guidelines.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000..a238ee046
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/doc/library-api-writing-guidelines.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
> +LTP Library API Writing Guidelines
> +==================================
> +
> +1. General Rules
> +----------------
> +
> +For extending library API it applies the same general rules as for writing tests
> +(see test-writing-guidelines.txt), with strong focus on readability and simplicity.
> +
> +Library tests are in lib/newlib_tests directory.
> +
> +2. C API
> +--------
> +
> +API source code is in headers include/*.h, include/lapi/*.h (backward compatibility)
> +and C sources in lib/*.c. Files have tst_ prefix.
> +
> +3. Shell API
> +------------
> +
> +API source code is in tst_test.sh, tst_security.sh and tst_net.sh
> +(all in testcases/lib directory).
> +
> +Changes in the shell API should not introduce uncommon dependencies
> +(use basic commands installed everywhere by default).
> --
> 2.22.1
>
--
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz
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