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

[David Marchand]

On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 12:33 PM Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net> wrote:
> 08/10/2021 10:03, 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/
> >
>
> No objection.

Going twice with me preparing the patch.


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David Marchand