Re: [PATCH net-next] selftests: fix flower parent qdisc

[Vlad Buslov <vladbu@mellanox.com>]

On Wed 13 May 2020 at 21:35, Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 10:58 AM Vlad Buslov <vladbu@mellanox.com> wrote:
>>
>> Flower tests used to create ingress filter with specified parent qdisc
>> "parent ffff:" but dump them on "ingress". With recent commit that fixed
>> tcm_parent handling in dump those are not considered same parent anymore,
>> which causes iproute2 tc to emit additional "parent ffff:" in first line of
>> filter dump output. The change in output causes filter match in tests to
>> fail.
>
> My commit simply restores the old behavior prior to 4.15, so are you
> saying these tests never work correctly on kernels <= 4.15? If so,
> they must be fixed no matter of my commit, right?
>
> Thanks.

I think all of these tests are newer than 4.15.