From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:40502 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727957AbeJaDPq (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Oct 2018 23:15:46 -0400 Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 14:21:12 -0400 From: Sasha Levin To: Steven Rostedt Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Masami Hiramatsu Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 17/19] selftests: ftrace: Add synthetic event syntax testcase Message-ID: <20181030182112.GB194472@sasha-vm> References: <20181030132824.218056-1-sashal@kernel.org> <20181030132824.218056-17-sashal@kernel.org> <20181030105815.36974eb4@vmware.local.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20181030105815.36974eb4@vmware.local.home> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 10:58:15AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: >On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 09:28:22 -0400 >Sasha Levin wrote: > >> From: Masami Hiramatsu >> >> [ Upstream commit ba0e41ca81b935b958006c7120466e2217357827 ] >> >> Add a testcase to check the syntax and field types for >> synthetic_events interface. >> >> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/153986838264.18251.16627517536956299922.stgit@devbox >> >> Acked-by: Shuah Khan >> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu >> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) >> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin > >Why are you adding selftests for old kernels to test a feature that >wasn't added until 4.17? We backport all selftest patches to stable to keep selftest on stable kernels as similar as possible to upstream. -- Thanks, Sasha