Subject: Re: [PATCH] selftests: timers: set-timer-lat: Fix hang when testing
 unsupported alarms
To: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>, john.stultz@linaro.org,
        tglx@linutronix.de, sboyd@codeaurora.org, shuah@kernel.org
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From: Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@google.com>
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Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 08:51:14 -0700
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On 09/22/2017 07:41 AM, Shuah Khan wrote:
> I assume you are good with this fix. I plan to apply it to linux-kselftest fixes
> today. Please let me know if you have any objections.
> 
> thanks,
> -- Shuah
> 

AIUI this check was added so set-timer-lat would treat a missing 
CAP_WAKE_ALARM as a skipped test (rather than making the entire test 
fail).  So setup_timer()'s callers would need to treat this as a special 
case, by returning immediately but with a return value of 0.