From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mails.dpdk.org (mails.dpdk.org [217.70.189.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C1D0A034F; Fri, 8 Oct 2021 11:37:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [217.70.189.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C323E40DDB; Fri, 8 Oct 2021 11:37:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mga06.intel.com (mga06.intel.com [134.134.136.31]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E87F14067B; Fri, 8 Oct 2021 11:37:33 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6200,9189,10130"; a="287354840" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.85,357,1624345200"; d="scan'208";a="287354840" Received: from orsmga008.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.65]) by orsmga104.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 08 Oct 2021 02:37:16 -0700 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.85,357,1624345200"; d="scan'208";a="489395449" Received: from bricha3-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com ([10.252.21.2]) by orsmga008-auth.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 08 Oct 2021 02:37:13 -0700 Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2021 10:37:09 +0100 From: Bruce Richardson To: Ferruh Yigit Cc: David Marchand , "Chen, Zhaoyan" , Lincoln Lavoie , Ali Alnubani , Aaron Conole , ci@dpdk.org, dev , Thomas Monjalon Message-ID: References: <01fac4e3-6c15-012d-0427-0936ef537bbb@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <01fac4e3-6c15-012d-0427-0936ef537bbb@intel.com> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Should we keep autotest.py ? X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" On Fri, Oct 08, 2021 at 09:03:22AM +0100, Ferruh Yigit wrote: > On 10/8/2021 8:30 AM, David Marchand wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 3:08 PM David Marchand wrote: > > > > > > Looking at how to add an autotest, I came upon autotest_data.py used > > > by autotest.py which has been in DPDK for a long time. > > > > > > From what I see, DTS directly calls the test binary. > > > The public CI relies on meson to invoke unit tests. > > > > > > Is the autotest.py script still used in some CI or can we remove it? > > > > Looking back in history, we lost ability to call this script with make removal. > > So I'd say we are fine with dropping it. > > See 3cc6ecfdfe85 ("build: remove makefiles") > > > > Going once. > > > > I asked similar some time ago [1], I am not using it (or not aware of anything that > depends on it), so no objection to remove it. > > [1] > http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/6f487e05-c40f-8445-247d-43f4dc3bf822@intel.com/ For me, OK to remove. /Bruce