Re: [PATCH] selftests: timers: set-timer-lat: Fix hang when testing unsupported alarms

[Greg Hackmann]

On 09/22/2017 07:41 AM, Shuah Khan wrote:
> I assume you are good with this fix. I plan to apply it to linux-kselftest fixes
> today. Please let me know if you have any objections.
>
> thanks,
> -- Shuah

AIUI this check was added so set-timer-lat would treat a missing 
CAP_WAKE_ALARM as a skipped test (rather than making the entire test 
fail).  So setup_timer()'s callers would need to treat this as a special 
case, by returning immediately but with a return value of 0.