Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757030Ab3CRVcN (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:32:13 -0400 Received: from mail-la0-f41.google.com ([209.85.215.41]:49141 "EHLO mail-la0-f41.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755617Ab3CRVcJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:32:09 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20130318142623.a6a9dd7be1ca9dcd1cd0caec@linux-foundation.org> References: <1363366442-11494-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> <1363366442-11494-5-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> <20130318142623.a6a9dd7be1ca9dcd1cd0caec@linux-foundation.org> Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 22:32:07 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] selftests: Add basic posix timers selftests From: Frederic Weisbecker To: Andrew Morton Cc: Thomas Gleixner , LKML , Stanislaw Gruszka , Peter Zijlstra , Steven Rostedt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1157 Lines: 29 2013/3/18 Andrew Morton : > On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 17:54:02 +0100 Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > >> Add some initial basic tests on a few posix timers >> interface such as setitimer() and timer_settime(). >> >> These simply check that expiration happens in a reasonable >> timeframe after expected elapsed clock time (user time, >> user + system time, real time, ...). >> >> This is helpful for finding basic breakages while hacking >> on this subsystem. >> >> ... >> >> tools/testing/selftests/timers/Makefile | 8 + > > I wonder if this should be tools/testing/posix-timers/, to leave room > in the namespace for other varieties of timer. In fact I called it timers/ on purpose such that some more timers related selftests can be added and gathered in the future. But I don't mind if we keep very single purpose directories like tools/testing/posix-timers/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/