RE: what if I wanted to write some tests...

["Chen, Brad" <brad dot chen at intel dot com>]

Thank you. I'll keep poking around. Don't hesitate
if you'd like to try to direct my attention to 
something more useful.

Brad

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Hunt [mailto:hunt@redhat.com] 
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 3:24 PM
To: Chen, Brad
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler; systemtap@sources.redhat.com
Subject: RE: what if I wanted to write some tests...

On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 13:51 -0700, Chen, Brad wrote:

> Indeed; I had tried to work from runtime/tests but 
> get a bunch of syntax errors. I was hoping somebody
> could confirm that this was supposed to work, and
> take a guess at what I might have wrong. I just did 
> a "recreate_links" from ../user; doesn't help. See
> test output below.

Looks like something broke compiling the tests on up-kernels.  I'll get
a fix checked in as soon as I figure it out.  Do you have an smp-kernel
you can boot?

> It seems I am able to ./build in runtime/probes,
> so perhaps I'll work there for a while and try 
> runtime/tests later.
> 
> I don't want to complain 

Please do.  Otherwise I'll just assume there are no problems or no one
is doing anything.

> but, in trying to run the
> where_func probe:
> - name of .ko has changed
> - nothing to indicate you should use the ./stp script
>   in the directory
> - ./stp lsmod assumes /sbin in path
> and I still haven't gotten it running yet. So if anybody
> has hints let me know, and please let me know if you own
> this directory and wouldn't mind me me updating things a 
> bit when I get them figured out.

See the last line in the README file in that directory.
"Note that this module is broken now ..."

I expect we will be able to add parameter passing to stpd soon so this
module will work as expected once again.

Martin