[LTP] [PATCH] tst_kvercmp: Handle larger kernel version numbers

Petr Vorel pvorel@suse.cz
Wed Oct 25 09:44:38 CEST 2023


Hi Edward,

...
> >> I wonder why you need this change. Number > 256 is actually only the third
> >> number, but we haven't checked that so far. Do you plan to use it actually?


> > It was causing the minor rev of the kernel I was running to overflow into the major rev, so a test that had a min kver of 4.19 was running and failing on a 4.14.327 kernel.

> I remembered it incorrectly.  It was the mmap20 test with min_kver
> 4.15 that was failing on a 4.14.327 kernel.

Good to know, thank for info. It will be merged during this week,
once we solve CI issue (should be fairly soon).

Kind regards,
Petr


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