APPLIED[U][L]: [SRU][L/unstable][L][K][J][J/oem-5.17][J/oem-6.0][J/oem-6.1][F][F/oem-5.14]PATCH v2 0/1] Force-pass the passage of time test in rtcpie

[Andrea Righi]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 01:04:55PM +0000, Andrei Gherzan wrote:
> Buglink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1814234
> 
> SRU Justification:
> 
> [Impact]
>   
> * This test can fail selftest on various test hosts in our testing
>   infrastructure forcing us to keep hinting releases. This leads to
>   maintenance burden for a test that is unreliable as it depends on the
>   context of the running host.
> 
> [Fix]
> 
> * Force-pass the test included by upstream in 
>   0b63accf87225b5eb7e52814c374cf02d733d4bb. We have chosen to keep this
>   test but to force its result unconditionally successful as opposed to
>   reverting the aforementioned commit because:
>   1. it keeps running the test with results and data that we can use in
>      the future for any "smarter" way to deal with it - eg. statistical
>      approach
>   2. it minimizes the maintenance burden of this patch kept in our 
>      kernel trees
> 
> [Test Plan]
> 
> * It was tested in clean VMs.
> 
> [Where problems could occur]
> 
> * No regression expected and the scope is in this specific selftest.
> 
> v2:
> * fix Buglink reference

Applied to lunar/linux and lunar/linux-unstable.

Thanks,
-Andrea