[dpdk-dev] Should we keep autotest.py ?

David Marchand david.marchand at redhat.com
Fri Oct 8 09:30:05 CEST 2021


On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 3:08 PM David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com> 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.

-- 
David Marchand



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