[LTP] [PATCH v3] ioctl_loop01.c: Use proper device for partitioning

Cyril Hrubis chrubis@suse.cz
Thu Sep 18 17:35:15 CEST 2025


Hi!
> > > The test should have needs_cmds set to parted (we do that properly in
> > > ioctl09.c) then we do not have to handle the 255 exit code here since
> > > the test would be skipped if it's missing.
> 
> > If we use needs_cmds all the check will be skipped in this case.
> 
> @Cyril: only single test require 'parted' as I reported in v1 [1].
> Yeah, code gets slightly more complicated just because single test requires
> parted. Or you would not care? IMHO it does not make sense to split test into
> two (too much duplicity).

The problem here is how to handle the metadata. One posible solution is
to add a notion of optional dependencies so that we would have
'needs_foo' and 'wants_foo'. Or turn the needs_foo into a structure with
an .optional boolean flag.

> But TINFO message should be turned in TCONF so that people notice.
> tst_res(TINFO, "Current environment doesn't have parted disk, skip it");

Yes please.

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Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz


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