On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 03:37:36PM +0100, Florian Westphal wrote: > Phil Sutter <phil@xxxxxx> wrote: > > AFAIR, we did just that in the past with such cases. I agree, it pretty > > much breaks any efforts at making the testsuite usable with stable > > kernels. > > > > > Should the dump files be removed? > > > > Maybe "feature flag" it and introduce a mechanism for test cases to > > revert to a different dump file? > > What could be good enough: > 1. fix dump files > 2. add feature flag, if feature not present -> exit 77/skip to elide > dump compare. Reasonably simple to provide backwards compat (and still keeping the actual test active)! > Would you explore this? Will do! Thanks, Phil
