RFC: exclude partitions from efi_selftest

[Michael Lawnick]

Am 16.09.2021 um 10:02 schrieb AKASHI Takahiro:
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 09:48:07AM +0200, Michael Lawnick wrote:
>> Am 16.09.2021 um 09:15 schrieb Michael Lawnick:
>>> Am 16.09.2021 um 09:12 schrieb AKASHI Takahiro:
>>>> Please, as Heinrich suggested, add CONFIG_FS_FAT, in your U-Boot configuration.
>>>>
>>> Hmm, I didn't understand that as a suggestion, but as a question for his
>>> understanding. Of course I'll give it a try.
>>>
>> Sometimes live is such easy. This fixed my issue, THX.
>>
>> For the after-math / my understanding:
>> - Do I understand correctly that the problem was that 'efi_selftest
>> block device' requires FAT support? So shouldn't there be a dependency
>> in CONFIG?
>
> Strictly speaking, CONFIG_EFI_LOADER requires FAT per UEFI specification,
> and actually it has 'imply FAT'. I don't know why Heinrich uses 'imply'
> instead of 'select'.
>
>> - What is the reason/use to iterate through the recognized partitions
>> even twice (in .setup and .execute) if they aren't needed/used?
>
> What line of code do you exactly mean by 'in .setup' (and in .execute)?

My understanding:
efi_selftests register their methods separated by setup/execute/teardown.
The central test control is taking tests from list and executes the
three methods, unaware of which exact test is executed:
lib/efi_selftest/efi_selftest.c
lib/efi_selftest/efi_selftest_block_device.c