[LTP] [RFC PATCH] API: Allow testing of kernel features in development

[Richard Palethorpe]

Hello,

Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz> writes:

> Hi!
>> I would be even tempted to add this to the default syscalls runtest file
>> but render the test resultless, e.g. replace the tst_res() and tst_brk()
>> handlers in tst_res.c so that it will print only INFO messages.
>
> And that would also allow us to have env variable switch that would
> enable all tests for unrelased features, something as
> LTP_ENABLE_UNRELASED or so. Also with that we can really just TCONF if
> that variable is not set which would be much simpler.

I worry this will cause extra work for people reviewing
TCONFs. Obviously the meta-data can be used to avoid any issues. However
few people have integrated that into their tooling and workflow yet.

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Thank you,
Richard.