Re: [PATCH 5.15 067/356] selftests/mm: log a consistent test name for check_compaction

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On Wed, Jul 03, 2024 at 01:02:18PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 03, 2024 at 12:36:43PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 
> > Every test result report in the compaction test prints a distinct log
> > messae, and some of the reports print a name that varies at runtime.  This
> > causes problems for automation since a lot of automation software uses the
> > printed string as the name of the test, if the name varies from run to run
> > and from pass to fail then the automation software can't identify that a
> > test changed result or that the same tests are being run.
> > 
> > Refactor the logging to use a consistent name when printing the result of
> > the test, printing the existing messages as diagnostic information instead
> > so they are still available for people trying to interpret the results.
> 
> I'm not convinced that this is a good stable candidate, it will change
> the output people are seeing in their test environment which might be an
> undesirable change.

Did it change the output in a breaking way in the other stable trees and
normal releases that happened with this commit in it?

thanks,

greg k-h




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