From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Yi Chen <yiche@redhat.com>
Cc: pablo@netfilter.org, phil@nwl.cc, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] test: shell: run-test.sh: introduce NFT_TEST_EXCLUDES
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2026 03:10:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aYP8ELzFrWADndpT@strlen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJsUoE03i1S6QmnSC++Qijh-q3J+QXdHek=j6E46R7+8-oZ7=w@mail.gmail.com>
Yi Chen <yiche@redhat.com> wrote:
> Some patches may be considered too aggressive to backport to
> downstream releases.
>
> For example:
> netfilter: nf_reject: don't reply to ICMP error messages
>
> When this patch is missing,
> tests/shell/testcases/packetpath/reject_loopback reports a failure.
Right, that makes sense.
> In addition, introducing this exclude feature makes it easier for
> downstream streams to run this test suite while excluding known SKIP
> items.
> This also helps to quickly detect newly introduced SKIP items, which
> may indicate new bugs.
All good reasons, I'll place this in the commit message before applying.
Thanks!
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-05 2:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-04 14:49 [PATCH] test: shell: run-test.sh: introduce NFT_TEST_EXCLUDES Yi Chen
2026-02-04 15:06 ` Florian Westphal
2026-02-05 2:03 ` Yi Chen
2026-02-05 2:10 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
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