linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net 0/8] selftests: mptcp: skip tests not supported by old kernels (part 1)

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Message-Id: <168544742274.5689.17805805293315572360.git-patchwork-notify@kernel.org>
Date:   Tue, 30 May 2023 11:50:22 +0000
From:   patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org
To:     Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@...sares.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/8] selftests: mptcp: skip tests not supported by old
 kernels (part 1)

Hello:

This series was applied to netdev/net.git (main)
by Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>:

On Sun, 28 May 2023 19:35:25 +0200 you wrote:
> After a few years of increasing test coverage in the MPTCP selftests, we
> realised [1] the last version of the selftests is supposed to run on old
> kernels without issues.
> 
> Supporting older versions is not that easy for this MPTCP case: these
> selftests are often validating the internals by checking packets that
> are exchanged, when some MIB counters are incremented after some
> actions, how connections are getting opened and closed in some cases,
> etc. In other words, it is not limited to the socket interface between
> the userspace and the kernelspace. In addition, the current selftests
> run a lot of different sub-tests but the TAP13 protocol used in the
> selftests don't support sub-tests: in other words, one failure in
> sub-tests implies that the whole selftest is seen as failed at the end
> because sub-tests are not tracked. It is then important to skip
> sub-tests not supported by old kernels.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net,1/8] selftests: mptcp: join: avoid using 'cmp --bytes'
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/d328fe870674
  - [net,2/8] selftests: mptcp: connect: skip if MPTCP is not supported
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/d83013bdf90a
  - [net,3/8] selftests: mptcp: pm nl: skip if MPTCP is not supported
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/0f4955a40daf
  - [net,4/8] selftests: mptcp: join: skip if MPTCP is not supported
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/715c78a82e00
  - [net,5/8] selftests: mptcp: diag: skip if MPTCP is not supported
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/46565acdd29f
  - [net,6/8] selftests: mptcp: simult flows: skip if MPTCP is not supported
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/9161f21c74a1
  - [net,7/8] selftests: mptcp: sockopt: skip if MPTCP is not supported
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/cf6f0fda7af7
  - [net,8/8] selftests: mptcp: userspace pm: skip if MPTCP is not supported
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/63212608a92a

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