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Not all new selftests written might be correctly skipping if the >> feature is not supported in older kernels. > > They should be skipping if a feature/configuration isn't supported. > The right approach is to fix the test to skip. > Thanks for your response. Regards, Harshit > thanks, > -- Shuah >