Re: [PATCH 2/2] runtests: add ability to exclude tests

[Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Sep 07, 2020 at 01:34:38PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 9/7/20 7:22 AM, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
> 
> This patch really needs some justification. I generally try to make sure
> that older kernel skip tests appropriately, sometimes I miss some and I
> fix them up when I find them.
> 
> So just curious what the use case is here for skipping tests? Not
> adverse to doing it, just want to make sure it's for the right reasons.

I think this is very useful, at least for me, in situation where some
tests are causeing problems (like hangs, panics) that are not fixed yet,
but I would still like to run entire tests suite to make sure my changes
in didn't break anything else. I find it especially usefull in rapidly
evolving project like this.

I have a V2 patches with that justification in place and some minor
changes. I'll be sending that (hopefuly it won't take hours this time).

Thanks!
-Lukas

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> Jens Axboe
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