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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Thomas Haller <thaller@redhat.com>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, fw@strlen.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH nft 3/4] tests: shell: skip pipapo set backend in transactions/30s-stress
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 11:34:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZVSexgxBFp3tZluj@calendula> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8d3ccdafe00d9e477464e63619bde0e39c6da093.camel@redhat.com>

On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 11:25:44AM +0100, Thomas Haller wrote:
> On Wed, 2023-11-15 at 10:42 +0100, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> > 
> >  
> > +if [ "$NFT_TEST_HAVE_pipapo" != y ] ;then
> > +	echo "Skipping pipapo set backend, kernel does not support
> > it"
> > +fi
> 
> It's good and useful to run a reduced subset of the test, if some
> kernel feature is missing.
> 
> But in that case, the end of the test should have something like
> 
>   if [ "$NFT_TEST_HAVE_pipapo" = n ] ; then
>       echo "Ran a partial test only, due to NFT_TEST_HAVE_pipapo=n"
>       exit 77
>   fi
> 
> so that it shows up as skipped. In other words, "partially skipped"
> should also show up as skipped.

I don't want this.

This test is very useful in older kernels to catch bugs, I don't want
to see a SKIPPED here.

I prefer the tests autoadapts itself to what the kernel provides.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-11-15 10:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-15  9:42 [PATCH nft 0/4] more tests/shell updates to run on 5.4 kernels Pablo Neira Ayuso
2023-11-15  9:42 ` [PATCH nft 1/4] tests: shell: skip if kernel does not support flowtable counter Pablo Neira Ayuso
2023-11-15  9:42 ` [PATCH nft 2/4] tests: shell: skip if kernel does not support flowtable with no devices Pablo Neira Ayuso
2023-11-15  9:42 ` [PATCH nft 3/4] tests: shell: skip pipapo set backend in transactions/30s-stress Pablo Neira Ayuso
2023-11-15 10:25   ` Thomas Haller
2023-11-15 10:34     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2023-11-15  9:42 ` [PATCH nft 4/4] tests: shell: restore pipapo and chain binding coverage in standalone 30s-stress Pablo Neira Ayuso

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