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authorMax Reitz2021-02-12 16:16:49 +0100
committerCleber Rosa2021-02-16 01:07:23 +0100
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parentAcceptance Tests: bump Avocado version requirement to 85.0 (diff)
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virtiofs_submounts.py test: Note on vmlinuz param
From the cancel message, it is not entirely clear why this parameter is mandatory now, or that it will be optional in the future. Add such a more detailed explanation as a comment in the test source file. Suggested-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20210212151649.252440-1-mreitz@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Willian Rampazzo <willianr@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>
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-rw-r--r--tests/acceptance/virtiofs_submounts.py12
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diff --git a/tests/acceptance/virtiofs_submounts.py b/tests/acceptance/virtiofs_submounts.py
index 949ca87a83..9a69b6b17b 100644
--- a/tests/acceptance/virtiofs_submounts.py
+++ b/tests/acceptance/virtiofs_submounts.py
@@ -228,6 +228,18 @@ class VirtiofsSubmountsTest(BootLinux):
def setUp(self):
vmlinuz = self.params.get('vmlinuz')
if vmlinuz is None:
+ """
+ The Linux kernel supports FUSE auto-submounts only as of 5.10.
+ boot_linux.py currently provides Fedora 31, whose kernel is too
+ old, so this test cannot pass with the on-image kernel (you are
+ welcome to try, hence the option to force such a test with
+ -p vmlinuz=''). Therefore, for now the user must provide a
+ sufficiently new custom kernel, or effectively explicitly
+ request failure with -p vmlinuz=''.
+ Once an image with a sufficiently new kernel is available
+ (probably Fedora 34), we can make -p vmlinuz='' the default, so
+ that this parameter no longer needs to be specified.
+ """
self.cancel('vmlinuz parameter not set; you must point it to a '
'Linux kernel binary to test (to run this test with ' \
'the on-image kernel, set it to an empty string)')