[PATCH v2 0/4] selftests: arm64: vec-syscfg updates

[Mark Brown]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 10:26:49AM -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
> On 9/29/21 9:35 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 03:43:23PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> > > I'm not sure it's a particularly good idea to run kselftest as a
> > > non-root user TBH, it's going to cause you to skip a lot of tests.

> We don't want Kselftest default run to be as root. Users can choose to
> run as root which would be an explicit choice so they expect and plan
> for the impact. Example panic test.

OTOH if you're trying to verify that the tests aren't broken it's not
that great since it'll mean that you'll not be exercising a bunch of the
code.

> > Ah, thanks for pointing that out. It would probably be better to skip the
> > tests rather than fail them if they're not running with sufficient
> > permissions, but I'll go ahead and queue your v3 for now.

> Correct. I would like to see tests skipped not failed if either config
> or permissions are lacking to run the tests.

As I said previously that's what my v3 that Will referenced above does.
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