Thomas Haller <thaller@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Passing the test suite must not require latest kernel patches. If test > "table_onoff" appears to not work due to a missing kernel patch, skip > it. > > If you run a special kernel and expect that all test pass, set > NFT_TEST_FAIL_ON_SKIP=y to catch unexpected skips. This makes the test suite and all feature probing moot for my use cases. If I see SKIP, I assume that the feature is missing. This is a bug, and it tells me that I might have to do something about it. If you absolutely cannot have a failure because of this, then please add another error state for this, so that I can see that something is wrong. This is NOT the same as a skip because some distro kernel lacks anonymous chain support. That said, I would STRONLGY perfer failure here. Distros will ship updates that eventually also include this bug fix. This fix is included in 6.5.6 for example.
