On 24 August 2023 5:50 PM CEST, Jakub Kicinski wrote:

On Thu, 24 Aug 2023 08:59:53 +0000 Michalik, Michal wrote:

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The biggest concern for me is the requirement of selftests[2]:
  "Don't take too long;"
This approach is reloading the modules few times to check few scenarios.
Also, the DPLL subsystem is being tested against multiple requests - so
it takes some time to finish (not too long but is definitely not instant).  

I think the time constraints are more of a question of practicality.
A developer should be able to run the tests as part of their workflow.

That makes sense - agree. So Jakub, if I understand correctly we have a few
different problems to solve here:
1) how to deploy the module:
 - now it's separated, we should consider e.g. netdevsim
2) if we should have those tests a part of selftests
 - I would remove it from selftests and move it to ./tools/testing
3) if we should use Python at all:
 - fast to develop and easy to maintain
 - might be problematic to deploy (no Python, VMs, embedded, no network etc.)
 
Do I understand our current outcome of the discussion correctly?

Yes, and on (3) unless someone objects let's stick to Python.

Please be kindly informed that I just start my 2 week vacations returning on 11th Sep.
Excuse me for the upcoming delay in preparing the v2 of the RFC.

All the best,
M^2