patman: Don't buffer test output with a single test

When a single test is run we don't need to buffer the test output. This
has the unfortunate side effect of suppressing test output, in particular
the binman output directory normally printed with the -X option. This is
a huge problem since it blocks debugging of tests.

We don't actually know how many tests will be run when we set up the
suite, so as a work-around, assume that test_name being specified
indicates that there is likely only one.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>

diff --git a/tools/patman/test_util.py b/tools/patman/test_util.py
index 7df2aec..0f6d1aa 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/patman/test_util.py
+++ b/tools/patman/test_util.py
@@ -208,14 +208,14 @@ def run_test_suites(toolname, debug, verbosity, test_preserve_dirs, processes,
     runner = unittest.TextTestRunner(
         stream=sys.stdout,
         verbosity=(1 if verbosity is None else verbosity),
-        buffer=buffer_outputs,
+        buffer=False if test_name else buffer_outputs,
         resultclass=FullTextTestResult,
     )
 
     if use_concurrent and processes != 1:
         suite = ConcurrentTestSuite(suite,
                 fork_for_tests(processes or multiprocessing.cpu_count(),
-                               buffer=buffer_outputs))
+                               buffer=False if test_name else buffer_outputs))
 
     for module in class_and_module_list:
         if isinstance(module, str) and (not test_name or test_name == module):