linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESEND v3] selftests/run_kselftest.sh: exit with error if tests fail

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Message-ID: <74d8f1bc-e2e0-4c14-b0b2-b1d9380a5b95@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2025 15:01:27 -0700
From: Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@...gle.com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>
Cc: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de>,
 linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND v3] selftests/run_kselftest.sh: exit with error if
 tests fail

On 11/11/25 10:36, Brendan Jackman wrote:
> Parsing KTAP is quite an inconvenience, but most of the time the thing
> you really want to know is "did anything fail"?
> 
> Let's give the user the his information without them needing
> to parse anything.
> 
> Because of the use of subshells and namespaces, this needs to be
> communicated via a file. Just write arbitrary data into the file and
> treat non-empty content as a signal that something failed.
> 
> In case any user depends on the current behaviour, such as running this
> from a script with `set -e` and parsing the result for failures
> afterwards, add a flag they can set to get the old behaviour, namely
> --no-error-on-fail.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@...gle.com>

Applied to linux-kselftest next for Linux 6.19-rc1

thanks,
-- Shuah