testsuite: about classifying the cases in systemtap.base

[David Smith]

On 11/06/2015 07:45 AM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> 
> Hi -
> 
>> I noticed that there are more than 200 cases in systemtap.base.
>> And most of them can be classified easily.
>> I'm going to make sub-directories in systemtap.base.
> 
> (One would do this more by making new sibling subdirectories
> beside rather than within systemtap.base)
> 
>> But I'm not sure whether it is worth to be done.
> 
> What value do you see to such a change?

I see some value in such a change, but I think the biggest disadvantage
to such a change is that comparing test results between releases becomes
quite difficult if the testsuite is rearranged.

At the current point, I think the disadvantages outweighs the advantages.

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