linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] selftests: ftrace: Do not failure if there is unsupported tests

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Date:   Tue, 4 Jul 2017 09:30:06 +0900
From:   Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:     linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, shuah@...nel.org,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        naresh.kamboju@...aro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] selftests: ftrace: Do not failure if there is
 unsupported tests

On Mon, 3 Jul 2017 11:59:06 -0400
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Jul 2017 00:52:32 +0900
> Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Can we add an option in kselftest, or to ftracetest that decides if
> > > unsupported is a failure or not? Otherwise I can not ack this patch.  
> > 
> > I would rather like to add an option to ftracetest instead of
> > kselftest, because whether the tested feature should be supported
> > or not is hard to decide from testing framework. It should be
> > checked by manual.
> 
> Can we do both? That is, add an option to have ftracetest not fail on
> "unsupported" but have it fail by default. We can have kselftest just
> pass in a parameter to ftracetest that has unsupported not fail?

I rather like to treat unsupported as success (or XFAIL) by default
and add "--fail-unsupported" option.

Thank you,

> But if that is too difficult, then I can live with modifying my test
> case to add the option.
> 
> -- Steve


-- 
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>