Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Oct 2018 14:21:12 -0400 | From | Sasha Levin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 17/19] selftests: ftrace: Add synthetic event syntax testcase |
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On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 10:58:15AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: >On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 09:28:22 -0400 >Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> wrote: > >> From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> >> >> [ Upstream commit ba0e41ca81b935b958006c7120466e2217357827 ] >> >> Add a testcase to check the syntax and field types for >> synthetic_events interface. >> >> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/153986838264.18251.16627517536956299922.stgit@devbox >> >> Acked-by: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> >> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> >> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> >> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> > >Why are you adding selftests for old kernels to test a feature that >wasn't added until 4.17?
We backport all selftest patches to stable to keep selftest on stable kernels as similar as possible to upstream.
-- Thanks, Sasha
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