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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 17:11:02 +0000
From: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: Perf tests for hw events
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On Thu, 22 Jan, at 09:59:52AM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> 
> At some point 'perf test' should grow infrastructure to specify what is
> required for a test so that it auto-skips those, possibly not even
> bothering the user telling something can't be tested. Right now for
> things like tests that requires finding a vmlinux, if it doesn't find
> it, it will just print "Skipped", etc.

Yeah, that makes sense. I'll take a look at that.

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Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center