[LTP] [RFC PATCH 0/7] Remove scsi testsuite + various testscripts

[Richard Palethorpe]

Hello,

Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz> writes:

> Hi Richie, all,
>
> thanks for your review, merged.
>
>> Hello,
>
>> Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz> writes:
>
>> > Hi,
>
>> > cleanup of 2 old scsi testsuites and some of legacy testscripts.
>> > IMHO the testsuites are not worth of fixing.
>
>> Very good. My only suggestion is to leave a tombstone in the
>> documentation (or github issues) any time we delete something big and
>> the thing it was supposed to test still should be tested.
>
> I understand the need of missing coverage, preferably over github issue
> (we document missing coverage over github issues already).
>
> I wonder what should be noted in this case. These test scripts attempted to test:
> * autofs (run other tests on autofs actually)
> * BIO (we still have testcases/kernel/device-drivers/tbio/)
> * sysfs (but we have at least some sysfs tests)
> * SCSI (I suppose these will be better handled elsewhere - xfstests have
>   scsi_debug file, mention scsi in some generic and xfs specific tests)
> * device mapper tests (there is something ruby based:
> https://github.com/jthornber/device-mapper-test-suite from Joe Thornber from Red
> Hat)
>
>> Something like "There was a testsuite called X, it appeared to do
>> Y, but we had to remove it because of Z".
>
>> It could be useful when answering questions about test feasability and
>> for SEO.
>
> I'm not sure if this 20 years old code deserves this description (but feel free
> to write it if you think so). But identifying missing coverage is of course
> important. Maybe we could have a special wiki page which would link missing
> coverage issues [1], but also highlight the most important ones (big subsystem
> missing) and also point out what we consider being tested elsewhere or what
> would be hard to test with LTP thus should be tested elsewhere.

I suppose if the test suite did not do anything interesting, then it's
not useful.

>
> Kind regards,
> Petr
>
> [1] https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/labels/missing%20coverage


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Thank you,
Richard.