APPLIED[unstable]: [Artful][PATCH 0/2] Fix kernel selftests build error for the "net" testsuite

Seth Forshee seth.forshee at canonical.com
Mon Jul 31 14:56:39 UTC 2017


On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 09:54:01AM -0500, Seth Forshee wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 11:52:45AM +0800, Po-Hsu Lin (Sam) wrote:
> > Oh sorry, I should make it clear in the cover letter.
> > 
> > The test was added just to make the second patch a clean cherry-pick.
> > The fix to the Makefile needs a new netdevice.sh to be implemented first.
> > 
> >  TEST_PROGS := run_netsocktests run_afpackettests test_bpf.sh netdevice.sh
> > 
> > It is easy to backport this, but I think it's harmless to add an extra
> > test to this.
> 
> Generally I would say that we should only add the new test based on its
> merit, and not simply to eliminate the need for a trivial backport.
> 
> However it's a moot point here. Currently "artful" refers to a kernel
> based on 4.11 and "unstable" to a kernel based on 4.12. It looks like
> the failure you're trying to fix is in unstable, but you've targeted the
> fix at artful.
> 
> Unstable already has the new test because it was introduced in 4.12.
> Only patch 2 is needed, so I'm just going to cherry pick that into
> unstable.

Applied patch 2 to unstable/master, thanks.




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