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

[Bruce Richardson]

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 <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/

For me, OK to remove.

/Bruce