On Fri, 6 Mar 2026 14:05:53 +0100 Antonio Quartulli wrote: > > There should probably be an else branch which prints some kind of > > echo "SKIP - requirements missing" > > > > Your requirements.py script prints stuff but the output needs to > > contain the word SKIP > > If "has_listener_requirements" is false, the test script still goes on, > but it won't check the received netlink notification content. > > So we're not really skipping the whole test, just one specific check > that requires extra tooling (which is normally found on all standard > distros). > > > Do you think we should rather SKIP the whole test so that we can easily > spot that something is missing?
No strong preference. But speaking speaking just from the netdev CI perspective it's probably best to report SKIP and then keep going. The system does string matches on the output. If we report FAIL after the pass it will show as FAIL, if it's SKIP + PASS the report will be SKIP.
