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From: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
	David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>,
	Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
	linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, kunit-dev@googlegroups.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kunit: tool: Force the use of the 'tty' console for UML
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 09:23:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ae7779c-15c5-0474-5840-44531dcf1d94@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201222111102.GC4077@smile.fi.intel.com>

On 12/22/20 4:11 AM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 11:39:00PM -0800, David Gow wrote:
>> kunit_tool relies on the UML console outputting printk() output to the
>> tty in order to get results. Since the default console driver could
>> change, pass 'console=tty' to the kernel.
>>
>> This is triggered by a change[1] to use ttynull as a fallback console
>> driver which -- by chance or by design -- seems to have changed the
>> default console output on UML, breaking kunit_tool. While this may be
>> fixed, we should be less fragile to such changes in the default.
>>
>> [1]:
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=757055ae8dedf5333af17b3b5b4b70ba9bc9da4e
> 
> Reported-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
> Tested-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
> 

Thank you all. Now in linux-kselftest kunit-fixes branch.

Will send this up for rc3.

Sorry for the delay - have been away from the keyboard for a
bit.

thanks,
-- Shuah

  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-04 16:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-22  7:39 [PATCH] kunit: tool: Force the use of the 'tty' console for UML David Gow
2020-12-22 11:11 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-01-04 16:23   ` Shuah Khan [this message]
2021-01-05 16:21     ` Petr Mladek
2021-01-05 16:34       ` Shuah Khan
2021-01-05 18:57         ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-01-05 19:52           ` Shuah Khan
2021-01-06  4:29             ` David Gow
2021-01-07 16:53               ` Petr Mladek
2021-01-07 18:13                 ` Shuah Khan
2020-12-27 20:00 ` Brendan Higgins

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