Re: [PATCH] selftests: uevent filtering

From: David Miller
Date: Wed May 23 2018 - 14:31:32 EST


From: Christian Brauner <christianvanbrauner@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 21:34:21 +0200

> Recent discussions around uevent filtering (cf. net-next commit [1], [2],
> and [3] and discussions in [4], [5], and [6]) have shown that the semantics
> around uevent filtering where not well understood.
> Now that we have settled - at least for the moment - how uevent filtering
> should look like let's add some selftests to ensure we don't regress
> anything in the future.
> Note, the semantics of uevent filtering are described in detail in my
> commit message to [2] so I won't repeat them here.
>
> [1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=90d52d4fd82007005125d9a8d2d560a1ca059b9d
> [2]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=a3498436b3a0f8ec289e6847e1de40b4123e1639
> [3]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=26045a7b14bc7a5455e411d820110f66557d6589
> [4]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/4/4/739
> [5]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/4/26/767
> [6]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/4/26/738
>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to net-next, thanks.