linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5.14 075/162] kselftest/arm64: signal: Add SVE to the set of features we can check for

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Message-ID: <20210927171602.GG4199@sirena.org.uk>
Date:   Mon, 27 Sep 2021 18:16:02 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.14 075/162] kselftest/arm64: signal: Add SVE to the set
 of features we can check for

On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 07:02:01PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> From: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
> 
> [ Upstream commit d4e4dc4fab686c5f3f185272a19b83930664bef5 ]
> 
> Allow testcases for SVE signal handling to flag the dependency and be
> skipped on systems without SVE support.

Unless you're backporting some test that makes use of this I'm not sure
why this is stable material?

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