Re: [PATCH i-g-t 0/2] Unrelated hotplug uevent masking out actual test result

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Reviewed-by: Lyude <lyude@xxxxxxxxxx>

will push in just a sec

On Tue, 2017-07-18 at 18:16 +0300, Paul Kocialkowski wrote:
> This patch introduces a workaround for a case where a uevent is
> issued
> by the kernel because of DP link training failing on a connector
> unrelated to the current test. Since the test depends on receiving a
> hotplug uevent, it previously passed even though it should not have.
> 
> False positives also occur due to the plug/unplug events being
> delayed
> and issued at resume time. This is mitigated by catching and flushing
> hotplugs everytime a change is made on connectors, but it is not
> enough
> to ensure that all hotplug events were caught and not delayed.
> 
> The problem here is that it is not possible to find out the exact
> reason
> why a uevent is issued by the kernel. A possible way to fix this
> would
> be to introduce more fields (the connector name and some reason why
> the
> event is triggered would probably be sufficient).
> 
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Cheers,
	Lyude
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