[LTP] [PATCH 2/2] mkswap01: wait for the triggered events to complete

[Petr Vorel]

> On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 10:18 AM Li Wang <liwang@redhat.com> wrote:



> > On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 4:56 AM Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz> wrote:



> >> > -     udevadm trigger --name-match=$TST_DEVICE
> >> > +     udevadm trigger --name-match=$TST_DEVICE --settle

> >> >       if [ -n "$device" ]; then
> >> >               mkswap_verify "$mkswap_op" "$op_arg" "$device" "$size"
> >> "$dev_file"

> >> --settle option for udevadm trigger has been added in v238 (in 2018) [1].
> >> This mean on SLES 12-SP5, RHEL-7.9, 18.04 LTS bionic, ... we get:

> >> trigger: unrecognized option '--settle'


> > Thanks for pointing out this, Petr.


> >> Do we ignore backward compatibility hoping that all distros aren't tested
> >> with
> >> newer LTP?


> > Actually, we only use fixed older-version of LTP for long-term supported
> > distros (e.g RHEL6/7) testing, as it falls into maintaining phase and no
> > new
> > features are added in. So this won't be a problem for us.

> > But if we consider fully backward compatibility of newer LTP for old
> > distros,
> > this is a burden to maintaining work. We might need to make a balance on
> > the patch accept or reject.

> > With regard to this simple patch, if you think it's a problem to SLES
> > 12-SP5, I'm
> > fine to NAK and rewrite with another way (at least for ioctl09 I will do
> > that).

> > But if you're OK with making use of fixed LTP on older distros, feel free
> > to apply this one :).



> Or, just go with the traditional way for compatibility:

> --- a/testcases/commands/mkswap/mkswap01.sh
> +++ b/testcases/commands/mkswap/mkswap01.sh
> @@ -128,7 +128,8 @@ mkswap_test()
>                 return
>         fi

> -       udevadm trigger --name-match=$TST_DEVICE --settle
> +       udevadm trigger --name-match=$TST_DEVICE
> +       udevadm settle --exit-if-exists==$TST_DEVICE

IMHO that'd be better (--exit-if-exists was added in 2009 in udev 174).

Reviewed-by: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>

Kind regards,
Petr

>         if [ -n "$device" ]; then
>                 mkswap_verify "$mkswap_op" "$op_arg" "$device" "$size"
> "$dev_file"