Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] selftests/arm64: Print missing MTE TAP headers

From: Muhammad Usama Anjum

Date: Fri Aug 21 2026 - 12:19:20 EST


On 21/08/2026 5:04 pm, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2026 at 03:15:50PM +0100, Muhammad Usama Anjum wrote:
>> Most of the remaining MTE tests set a TAP plan and emit results without
>> first printing the TAP version header. Direct execution therefore starts
>> with a plan such as "1..20" instead of "TAP version 13".
>>
>> Print the header in every remaining MTE test that is missing it. Do so
>> before setup and prerequisite checks so early failures and whole-test
>> skips also retain the header.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@xxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> Newly introduced. This is an output-format consistency change and does
>> not fix duplicated output or alter test execution behavior.
>
> This should probably just be a single patch with patch 1.

My idea here is that the first patch would get backported as that's
true logs cleanup patch. (1024 lines of 1..1 are avoided with that).
This patch wouldn't get backported. Its just formatting fixing of the
output.

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Thanks,
Usama