Re: [PATCH] selftests: sched: add sched as a default selftest target
From: Chris Hyser
Date: Thu Feb 20 2025 - 23:21:24 EST
From: Sinadin Shan <sinadin.shan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2025 11:23 AM
To: Chris Hyser; Shrikanth Hegde
Cc: linux-kselftest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; shuah@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [PATCH] selftests: sched: add sched as a default selftest target
>> I guess my question is what if SCHED_CORE was supposed to be configed into
>> the test kernel? Silently burying the error might be bad. I'm not strongly tied to
>> that, just looking for opinions. At the same time, if you put the orig change in,
>> people w/o SCHED_CORE on will start seeing "failures" they didn't see before,
>> yes? and that seems bad.
>
> Yes, that seems bad as rightly pointed out by Shrikant. I have a patch
> that does the above mentioned skip, and if skipping is a right option to
> take here I can send it in the next version.
If that is the plan, I prefer to fix it myself.
-chrish