[U-Boot] mmc tests incorrectly implemented

[Tom Rini]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 06:23:46PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On 4/10/19 5:12 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> it would be nice if I was CCed on this.
> 
> > I see that some mmc tests have been added to test/py, but I see problems
> > with them:
> > 
> > 1) test_mmc_rescan assumes that each entry in env__mmc_rd_configs is a
> > separate device that can be rescanned. This isn't actually true; entries
> > in that array are intended to drive the mmc read test, and so can point
> > at partitions or specific sector numbers.
> 
> Is that documented somewhere ? I assumed they are separate devices and
> if you need to test multiple partitions, you will have multiple entries
> in this array, one for each device:partition pair.
> 
> > Running an mmc rescan test on
> > the entire array results in duplicated tests. A new data array should be
> > created for different tests.
> 
> I don't have such a usecase, but the fix should be easy to implement.
> Can you do that ?
> 
> > 2) It relies on test data that was not previously required. In
> > particular, I see new test failures because the "info_device" key is now
> > required. New tests should either (a) use new optional data arrays to
> > configure their operation, or (b) access any new data in an optional
> > way, skipping the test if it's not present, so as not to cause test
> > failures.
> 
> Either that, or update your tests. Can you submit a patch for this ?
> 
> > Also, shouldn't things like new tests be announced to the board
> > maintainers list, so that people can update their test/py configurations
> > to enable new tests if they're appropriate for their platform?
> 
> I don't know , should it ?

On me, yes, this is probably something worth poking folks on the board
maintainers ML about, especially once it's shown useful on two SoCs :)

-- 
Tom
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