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    ktest: Create variables for the ktest config files · 77d942ce
    Steven Rostedt authored
    I found that I constantly reuse information for each test case.
    It would be nice to just define a variable to reuse.
    
    For example I may have:
    
    TEST_START
    [...]
    TEST = ssh root@mybox /path/to/my/script
    
    TEST_START
    [...]
    TEST = ssh root@mybox /path/to/my/script
    
    [etc]
    
    The issue is, I may wont to change that script or one of the other
    fields. Then I need to update each line individually.
    
    With the addition of config variables (variables only used during parsing
    the config) we can simplify the config files. These variables can
    also be defined multiple times and each time the new value will
    overwrite the old value.
    
    The convention to use a config variable over a ktest option is to use :=
    instead of =.
    
    Now we could do:
    
    USER := root
    TARGET := mybox
    TEST_SCRIPT := /path/to/my/script
    TEST_CASE := ${USER}@${TARGET} ${TEST_SCRIPT}
    
    TEST_START
    [...]
    TEST = ${TEST_CASE}
    
    TEST_START
    [...]
    TEST = ${TEST_CASE}
    
    [etc]
    
    Now we just need to update the variables at the top.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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