Re: [PATCH 1/2] kselftests: timers: Make set-timer-lat fail more gracefully for !CAP_WAKE_ALARM

[Prarit Bhargava]

On 03/26/2015 12:29 PM, John Stultz wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 4:31 AM, Prarit Bhargava <prarit@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 03/25/2015 07:44 PM, John Stultz wrote:
>>> +                     printf("%-22s %s missing CAP_WAKE_ALARM?    : [UNSUPPORTED]\n",
>>> +                                     clockstring(clock_id),
>>> +                                     flags ? "ABSTIME":"RELTIME");
>>
>> Something to think about:  Do you want to write these tests to be more human
>> readable or machine readable?  In theory with awk I guess it doesn't matter too
>> much, however, it is something that we should think about moving forward.
> 
> So this came up at ELC in a few discussions. Right now there isn't any\

Sorry, I'm not familiar with ELC?  What is that Acronym for?
> established output format, but there's some nice and simple
> infrastructure for counting pass/fails.

Okay that's great.

> 
> However, in talking to Tyler, I know he has started looking at how to
> integrate the selftests into our automated infrastructure and was
> interested in how we improve the output parsing for reports. So there
> is interest in improving this, and I'm open to whatever changes might
> be needed (adding extra arguments to the test to put them into "easy
> parse" mode or whatever).

Thanks John.

P.

> 
> thanks
> -john
> 
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