Re: [OE-core][PATCH] lttng-tools: skip lttng kernel related test if lttng kernel modules not present

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, 2024-01-31 at 11:40 +0800, Xiangyu Chen wrote:
> From: Xiangyu Chen <xiangyu.chen@windriver.com>
> 
> The current tests will run both userspace and kernel testing. Some of use cases only
> use lttng for one kind of tracing (e.g. userspace). If the lttng modules(.ko files)
> is not present during the test,it would end up with lots of failing.
> 
> Add a check in ptest script, if current system doesn't contain lttng kernel modules,
> passing LTTNG_TOOLS_DISABLE_KERNEL_TESTS=1 to make to skip all lttng kernel related testing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xiangyu Chen <xiangyu.chen@windriver.com>
> ---
>  ...skip_kernel_test-to-check-root-user-.patch | 1307 +++++++++++++++++
>  .../lttng/lttng-tools/run-ptest               |   25 +
>  .../lttng/lttng-tools_2.13.11.bb              |    1 +
>  3 files changed, 1333 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 meta/recipes-kernel/lttng/lttng-tools/0001-tests-add-check_skip_kernel_test-to-check-root-user-.patch

This is a complex patch and I don't really want to carry this until
something merges upstream or ideally makes it into a released version.

We simply don't have the maintainer capacity to carry large patches
like this unfortunately and the number of people who need it isn't
clear.

Cheers,

Richard