Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] kselftests: livepatch: Adapt tests to be executed on 4.12 kernels

Josh Poimboeuf
2026-04-16T17:07:52Z

On Mon, Apr 13, 2026 at 02:26:11PM -0300, Marcos Paulo de Souza wrote:
> A new version of the patchset, with fewer patches now. Please take a look!
>
> Original cover-letter:
> These patches don't really change how the patches are run, just skip
> some tests on kernels that don't support a feature (like kprobe and
> livepatched living together) or when a livepatch sysfs attribute is
> missing.
>
> The last patch slightly adjusts check_result function to skip dmesg
> messages on SLE kernels when a livepatch is removed.

Why are we adding complexity to support Linux 4.12 in mainline? Isn't
that what enterprise distros are for?

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Josh