Re: [PATCH 1/2] selftests: ftrace: Do not failure if there is unsupported tests

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 4 Jul 2017 00:52:32 +0900
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Can we add an option in kselftest, or to ftracetest that decides if
> > unsupported is a failure or not? Otherwise I can not ack this patch.  
> 
> I would rather like to add an option to ftracetest instead of
> kselftest, because whether the tested feature should be supported
> or not is hard to decide from testing framework. It should be
> checked by manual.

Can we do both? That is, add an option to have ftracetest not fail on
"unsupported" but have it fail by default. We can have kselftest just
pass in a parameter to ftracetest that has unsupported not fail?

But if that is too difficult, then I can live with modifying my test
case to add the option.

-- Steve