14/04/2020 19:22, De Lara Guarch, Pablo: > Hi Thomas, > > From: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> > > 14/04/2020 12:22, Pablo de Lara: > > > Now that capabilities are checked to see if an algorithm is supported > > > by a device, there is no need to check for a specific version of a > > > library used in a PMD. > > > > Yes, and even no need to check the PMD at all. > > All *_TEST_TARGET_PMD_* constants should be removed. > > > > I am currently working on this. However, I would like to split this effort > into multiple patchsets. A first one addressing the problem of needing to > check for > specific information from PMDs (such as IMB_VERSION_NUM), which should not > have any effect on the number of test cases ran for each PMD, and another one > which > addresses your comment, and that will enable test cases for all PMDs. > This last patchset will require testing from all PMD maintainers and it is a > less urgent > problem to resolve, so we can decide if we want to merge it in this release > or wait > for more time in 20.08.
Thanks for your efforts Pablo. If the basic is working, I am for removing *_TEST_TARGET_PMD_* in 20.05, and allow PMD maintainers to validate the tests during -rc phases.
