Re: testing/selftests/alsa/mixer-test: 10 failures on Dell XPS 13 9360

[Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>]

Dear Takashi,


Thank you very much for your reply.

Am 31.05.24 um 17:17 schrieb Takashi Iwai:
> On Fri, 31 May 2024 07:50:33 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:

>> Running the ALSA kselftests with Linux 6.10-rc1, `mixer-test` shows
>> ten failures:
>>
>>      # Totals: pass:24 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:11 error:0
>>
>> These are:
>>
>>      not ok 5 write_invalid.0.40
>>      not ok 11 write_valid.0.39
>>      not ok 18 write_valid.0.38
>>      not ok 25 write_valid.0.37
>>      not ok 201 write_invalid.0.12
>>      not ok 208 write_invalid.0.11
>>      not ok 264 write_invalid.0.3
>>      not ok 271 write_invalid.0.2
>>      not ok 278 write_invalid.0.1
>>      not ok 285 write_invalid.0.0
> 
> Through a quick look, those are no real "failures".  It'd be more
> preferable if the driver returns an error for invalid values, but
> currently it's up to drivers how to deal with them, and some accept as
> is but with correction of the values internally.  They are shown as
> "skips" in the summary above you showed, after all.

Sorry, somehow I copied the wrong line. The attachment actually contains:

     # Totals: pass:217 fail:10 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:60 error:0

So it seems to be shown as failure.

> A more strict check can be enabled by a kconfig option
> CONFIG_SND_CTL_INPUT_VALIDATION=y generically.

Thank you. I am going to test that out.


Kind regards,

Paul