Re: [PATCH] selftests: sched: add sched as a default selftest target

[Chris Hyser]

From: Chris Hyser <chris.hyser@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2025 11:21 PM
To: Sinadin Shan; Shrikanth Hegde
Cc: linux-kselftest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; shuah@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [PATCH] selftests: sched: add sched as a default selftest target
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> 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
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>>> 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.
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>> 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.
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> If that is the plan, I prefer to fix it myself.

Ok. Here is a better plan. I suspected there must be some convention for all
these tests (that you are obviously familiar with), I just feel bad for how this test
originally got jammed in here. If you already have a patch, we should just go with 
that and yes adding that code seems like the exact right thing to do. 

-chrish