From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Eva Kurchatova <eva.kurchatova@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] selftests: netdevsim: skip the rate tc-bw check without tool support
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:11:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260925171154.79c372fc@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260925135512.3644101-1-eva.kurchatova@virtuozzo.com>
On Fri, 25 Sep 2026 16:55:01 +0300 Eva Kurchatova wrote:
> The tc-bw attribute was added to devlink in iproute2 6.17, together
> with the kernel side in v6.17. An older devlink has no such option and
> the rate test fails on "Unknown option" instead of skipping.
>
> Probe once in rate_test() and skip the tc-bw checks as a whole, so that
> a missing option costs a single skip line rather than one per rate
> object.
Maintaining backward compat for tests is not a goal for us.
Teach your testing hardness to do this automatically, or carry your own
fixes.
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pw-bot: reject
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2026-09-25 13:55 [PATCH] selftests: netdevsim: skip the rate tc-bw check without tool support Eva Kurchatova
2026-09-26 0:11 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
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