[lttng-dev] [PATCH] lttng-tools: remove bogus argument from prove invocation

Jonathan Rajotte jonathan.r.julien at gmail.com
Tue Oct 28 00:15:31 EDT 2014


On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 12:02 AM, Nathan Lynch <Nathan_Lynch at mentor.com>
wrote:

> On 10/27/2014 09:38 PM, Jonathan Rajotte wrote:
> > Hey
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 10:00 PM, Nathan Lynch <nathan_lynch at mentor.com
> > <mailto:nathan_lynch at mentor.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     An argument of "$2" was added to the prove command line in
> >     tests/run.sh by 68270f0f604e "Mi test: Basic test structure".  This
> is
> >     harmless since run.sh is never called with more than one argument,
> but
> >
> >
> > The multiple arguments could be overcome by adding "" to the multiple
> > test files list but as you said it is confusing and error prone.
> >
> > This actually can be used to debug test with a "-v". Or add any basic
> > arguments to the prove command and was simply convenient at the time.If
> > this actually break patch from OE ( I assume OE stand for OpenEmbedded
> > and you are talking about this commit [1])  I'm okai with reverting the
> > change I introduced.
>
> I didn't intend to imply that upstream LTTng is responsible for keeping
> patches working in a downstream project like OE.  I mentioned OE because
> that's how my attention was drawn to this change.


Did not take it like that :)


>


> If the $2 argument has a legitimate use, I suggest that it be made a bit
> more clear since 1) the commit that introduced it didn't mention it at
> all, and 2) no code in-tree actually makes use of the extra argument.
>
> I figured it was likely a mistake.
>

Which kind of was. This wasn't supposed to be merge and was a mistake on my
part when formatting the patch. It was discussed with David before merging
and we decided to keep it since it was not harmful or *used* and proved
useful. But with the effect it has and unwanted repercussion(confusion,
missing mention in commit etc.) it seems not every aspect where evaluated.
Hence I don't mind this patch and almost welcome it.

Cheers!
-- 
Jonathan R.Julien
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