On Sat, Mar 02, 2019 at 10:43:52PM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 2/21/19 1:57 AM, Cleber Rosa wrote:
> > When running on very low powered environments, some tests may time out
> > causing false negatives.  As a conservative change, and for
> > considering that human time (investigating false negatives) is worth
> > more than some extra machine cycles (and time), let's increase the
> > overall timeout.
> 
> However this is annoying when a test is stuck and you work on battery...
>

I agree, but at this point, the more we try to fix all use cases, the
furthest we get to something reasonable IMO.

Any ideas on how to do better here while still keeping things simple?

- Cleber.

> > 
> > CC: Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Cleber Rosa <cr...@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  tests/acceptance/boot_linux_console.py | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/tests/acceptance/boot_linux_console.py 
> > b/tests/acceptance/boot_linux_console.py
> > index cc5dcd7373..fa721a7355 100644
> > --- a/tests/acceptance/boot_linux_console.py
> > +++ b/tests/acceptance/boot_linux_console.py
> > @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ class BootLinuxConsole(Test):
> >      :avocado: enable
> >      """
> >  
> > -    timeout = 60
> > +    timeout = 90
> >  
> >      KERNEL_COMMON_COMMAND_LINE = 'printk.time=0 '
> >  
> > 

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