[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] tests/igt: dmesg noise is a kernel failure

[Chris Wilson]

On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 11:07:17AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> At least when testing the kernel. In normal programs pretty much all
> the dmesg noise would simply be replaced by debug asserts, but in the
> kernel we try rely hard to not fall over minor inconsistencies.
> 
> Still for CI purposes there's not really a difference, hence don't
> treat it as such.
> 
> Motivated since once again I've seen a statistics where this was split
> up, and then a reduction of "failures" (but in reality just trading
> them in for more "warnings") praised as success.

Hear, hear! dfail == fail, and dwarn == warn.

Calling a failure, a dfail just softens that it failed.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre