[Buildroot] [RFC PATCH 2/4] support/testing: allow to use extra large timeouts
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Mon Jul 31 19:25:04 UTC 2017
Hello,
On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 01:49:44 -0300, Ricardo Martincoski wrote:
> diff --git a/support/testing/run-tests b/support/testing/run-tests
> index 0cb673c61f..33ac60d6b2 100755
> --- a/support/testing/run-tests
> +++ b/support/testing/run-tests
> @@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ def main():
> help='number of testcases to run simultaneously')
> parser.add_argument('-j', '--jlevel', type=int,
> help='BR2_JLEVEL to use for each testcase')
> + parser.add_argument('-e', '--elastic-timeout', type=int, default=1,
> + help='increase timeouts (useful for slow machines)')
I find the choice of the "elastic timeout" a bit weird. To me, it feels
like a timeout that will reduce and extend like an elastic, not a
timeout multiplier.
Perhaps we should call this --timeout-multiplier or something like
that ?
Thomas
--
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com
More information about the buildroot
mailing list