Re: CVS commit: src/tests/modules

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Sat, 22 Feb 2020, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:

> I have got no opinion. Please rearrange the directories as needed.

It's too much bother for now to move things around.  But for future
changes it would be good to put new "helper" modules in the same area
as the tests being helped.

> While there, it would be good to implement modctl(MODCTL_MODSTAT,
> &modstat) to check whether a specific module is loaded into the kernel
> and retrieve modstat_t describing it.
>
> modstat_t m;
> strlcpy(&m.ms_name, "haxm", MAXMODNAME);
> if (modctl(MODCTL_MODSTAT, &modstat) == -1)
>    err(EXIT_FAILURE, "modctl: haxm");
>
> I have got use-cases for these checks and I envision their wider usage
> in future. We already have 3 use-cases in ATF tests.

I can probably do this fairly quickly.  But I'll have to look closer
at the argument/result passing, especially WRT the module's list of
"required" modules.


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