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For a lot of areas the > skipping falls out natually since there's some optionality (so even with > the same kernel version you might not have the feature in the running > kernel) or it's a new API which has a discovery mechanism in the ABI > anyway. OTOH some areas have been actively hostile to the idea of > running on older kernels so there are things that do break when you try. > TBH so long as the tests don't crash the system or something people are > probably just going to ignore any tests that have never passed. Some people (hello :) ) run tests against distro kernels ... shame that prctl just knows one sort of "EINVAL" so we cannot distinguish :( But yeah, maybe one has to be more careful of filtering these failures out then. -- Cheers David / dhildenb