On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 01:27:14PM -0400, Willem de Bruijn wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 1:15 PM Greg KH <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 09:47:59AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > > From: Willem de Bruijn <[email protected]>
> > > Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 12:37:33 -0400
> > >
> > > > Specific to the above test, I can add a check command testing
> > > > setsockopt SO_ZEROCOPY  return value. AFAIK kselftest has no explicit
> > > > way to denote "skipped", so this would just return "pass". Sounds a
> > > > bit fragile, passing success when a feature is absent.
> > >
> > > Especially since the feature might be absent because the 'config'
> > > template forgot to include a necessary Kconfig option.
> >
> > That is what the "skip" response is for, don't return "pass" if the
> > feature just isn't present.  That lets people run tests on systems
> > without the config option enabled as you say, or on systems without the
> > needed userspace tools present.
> 
> I was not aware that kselftest had this feature.
> 
> But it appears that exit code KSFT_SKIP (4) will achieve this. Okay,
> I'll send a patch and will keep that in mind for future tests.

Wonderful, thanks for doing that!

greg k-h

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