netdev - Re: [RFC 0/7] selftests: kselftest_harness: use common result printing helper

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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2024 17:48:13 -0800
From: Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
CC: jakub@...udflare.com, shuah@...nel.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/7] selftests: kselftest_harness: use common result printing helper



On February 16, 2024 5:26:21 PM PST, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:
>On Fri, 16 Feb 2024 16:33:04 -0800 Jakub Kicinski wrote:
>> On Fri, 16 Feb 2024 16:31:19 -0800 Jakub Kicinski wrote:
>> > Let's see if I can code this up in 30 min. While I do that can you 
>> > ELI5 what XPASS is for?! We'll never going to use it, right?  
>> 
>> Oh, it's UNexpected pass. Okay. So if we have a case on a list of
>> expected failures and it passes we should throw xpass.

Right: it's still "ok" but it identifies something worth looking at ("why did this start passing?")

>
>I got distracted from this distraction :S
>Is this along the lines of what you had in mind?
>Both my series need to be rejigged to change the paradigm 
>but as a PoC on top of them:

Oh yeah! This looks good. I will give it a spin tomorrow.

-Kees

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Kees Cook