Re: [RFC PATCH bpf-next v3 2/2] selftests/livepatch: update test-ftrace.sh for deprecated ftrace_enabled
Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
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On Thu, 6 Aug 2026 17:45:00 -0400 Andrey Grodzovsky <[email protected]> wrote: > > Since the selftests are shipped with the kernel code, I think > > we don't need to handle backward compatibility here. Instead, > > we can just assume disabling ftrace is no longer supported. Incorrect. > > > > Thanks, > > Song > > I tend to agree but I think here[1] Steve and Miroslav asked for > backward compatability. V1 was actually the way you prefer. Right. We test older kernels (think LTS) with newer testing environments. We need them to be backward compatible. -- Steve