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| author | Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> | 2021-02-12 16:16:49 +0100 |
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| committer | Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com> | 2021-02-15 19:07:23 -0500 |
| commit | 3e5c180be0ccf6ced16b76ed552182f364e5da6c (patch) | |
| tree | 985fa4a122a385499fac95d006cff8d0be7661d0 /tests/acceptance | |
| parent | 9e5fa3a47c8016e04eb0f2d0cc405a4367e45cb2 (diff) | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'tests/acceptance')
| -rw-r--r-- | tests/acceptance/virtiofs_submounts.py | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
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)') |