[libvirt] [PATCH] nodeinfodata: Remove broken symlinks

[Martin Kletzander]

On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 03:30:50PM +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:
>On 01.04.2015 15:02, Martin Kletzander wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 11:01:11AM +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:
>>> The 7c3c7f217ebae5 commit introduced a nodeinfo test. In order to do
>>> that, some parts of sysfs had to be copied. However, sysfs is full of
>>> symlinks, so during copying some symlinks broke. Remove them, as on
>>> different systems they can point to different files or be broken.
>>>
>>
>> That commit introduced only two thirds of the files, the rest is from
>> f5c2d6 (just in case you want to update the commit message).
>>
>> But!  Not only we don't need these, but power and uevent don't need to
>> be there either, do they?  And core_siblings(_list) is also not
>> something we (will) use since it's just a syntax sugar for parsing
>> data for all CPUs (that we do anyway).
>>
>> If you want to clean the test data a bit, I suggest you clean
>> tests/nodeinfodata/*/cpu/cpu*/{uevent,power,topology/core_siblings*,firmware_node,subsystem}
>>
>> files too.  That's 202 files you can get rid of.
>
>good point. Although I'd leave core_siblings and topology - it's
>currently not used, but it may come handy when debugging our own node
>info code. It contains all the pieces of information that one need to
>reconstruct the topology. But others can be removed as you say. Will
>send v2.
>

I meant that the info in core_siblings* can be reconstructed from all
the other data, but that's right that we might validate it with that
additional files.
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