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

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 10/8/2021 8:30 AM, David Marchand wrote:
> 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.
> 

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/