+Guenter On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 12:06:28PM GMT, Simona Vetter wrote: > On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 08:43:50PM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote: > > The tests consistently trigger WARNs in drm_framebuffer code. I'm not > > sure what the point is with type of belts and suspenders tests. The > > warnings *are* the way to flag erroneous API usage. > > > > Warnings in turn trigger failures in CI. Filtering the warnings are > > error prone, and, crucially, would also filter actual errors in case the > > kunit tests are not run. > > > > I acknowledge there may be complex test cases where you'd end up > > triggering warnings somewhere deep, but these are not it. These are > > simple. > > > > Revert the tests, back to the drawing board. > > Yeah I think long-term we might want a kunit framework so that we can > catch dmesg warnings we expect and test for those, without those warnings > actually going to dmesg. Similar to how the lockdep tests also reroute > locking validation, so that the expected positive tests don't wreak > lockdep for real. > > But until that exists, we can't have tests that splat in dmesg when they > work as intended. It should be pretty soon: https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20240403131936.787234-1-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx/ I'm not sure what happened to that series, but it looks like everybody was mostly happy with it? Maxime
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