On Mon, Sep 04, 2023 at 11:06:30AM +0200, Florian Westphal wrote:
> Running selftests on older kernels makes some of them fail very early
> because some tests use features that are not available on older
> kernels, e.g. -stable releases.
>
> Known examples:
> - inner header matching
> - anonymous chains
> - elem delete from packet path
>
> Also, some test cases might fail because a feature isn't
> compiled in, such as netdev chains for example.
>
> This adds a feature-probing to the shell tests.
>
> Simply drop a 'nft -f' compatible file with a .nft suffix into
> tests/shell/features.
>
> run-tests.sh will load it via --check and will add
>
> NFT_TESTS_HAVE_${filename}=$?
Maybe make this:
| truefalse=(true false)
| NFT_TESTS_HAVE_${filename}=${truefalse[$?]}
[...]
> [ $NFT_HAVE_chain_binding -eq 1 ] && test_chain_binding
So this becomes:
| $NFT_HAVE_chain_binding && test_chain_binding
Use of true/false appears to work in dash, so might be POSIX sh
compatible?
Cheers, Phil
