[RFC PATCH 1/1] Add basic support for code coverage analysis

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Tue,  6 Sep 2022 18:43:09 +0200
Felix Moessbauer <felix.moessbauer at siemens.com> wrote:

> This patch adds basic support to get meaningful
> code coverage statistics for some central components.
> To keep things simple, we only focus on the parts that are
> tested as part of the "fast-tests" suite.
> This includes the lib as well as drivers that do not require
> special hardware to be tested.
> 
> By providing the gcovr.cfg file in the project root,
> modern versions of meson (>=0.63) can pass that information
> to gcovr, making it possible to configure the coverage target
> of meson.
> This enables us to use the default meson coverage infrastructure
> and customize it for the needs of the DPDK project.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Felix Moessbauer <felix.moessbauer at siemens.com>
> Acked-by: William Lam <william.lam at bytedance.com>
> Acked-by: Chriss Windle <chrisswindle at microsoft.com>

Not sure why this patch stalled. Seems ok but the set of drivers seems
quite small. Would be good to do it across wider set.