On Mon, 2023-01-30 at 08:28 -0500, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> [Trimmed Cc list, since this is an ima-evm-utils discussion. Adding
> Petr.]
>
> On Fri, 2023-01-27 at 08:57 +0100, Roberto Sassu wrote:
> > On Thu, 2023-01-26 at 17:25 -0500, Stefan Berger wrote:
> > > How do you tell the user that the patches need to be applied for the test to
> > > succeed and not worry about it when the patches are not applied?
> >
> > Uhm, I agree. I should at least write a comment as for EVM portable
> > signatures, and maybe display a message in the test logs.
>
> This is a generic problem that needs to be addressed. FYI, LTP
> addressed it by introducing "struct test_tag" in commit ca2c76990
> ("lib: Add support for test tags").
One idea could be to list all the patches the group of tests is going
to check, and add an argument to expect_pass and expect_fail to specify
the indexes of patches required for the test. We print the required
patches in an error message.
Roberto
