[Piglit] [PATCH] egl_ext_device_drm: don't fail the test if open("/dev/dri/cardX") errors

[Dylan Baker]

Quoting Emil Velikov (2018-10-09 05:35:39)
> On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 at 19:13, Dylan Baker <dylan at pnwbakers.com> wrote:
> >
> > In other cases like this we return skip instead of warn.
> Can you be more specific about those "other cases like these"? It's
> the core part of your argument so w/o a quote/reference it's
> impossible to make a decision.

For example, if a test binary doesn't exist or isn't executable.

> > I think that it should
> > be skip because:
> >
> > 1) warn doesn't have any real meaning
> Not a usual black-and-white one, but it does.
> WARN is something that should be addressed (looked at), but isn't
> considered an blocking issue.

Piglit's warn is a bad particularly because it doesn't have a concise meaning,
it means "something might have happened". Tests results should not be ambiguous
like that. pass, fail, crash, and skip all have clear concise meanings.

> > 2) we couldn't actually run the test so there isn't a result
> >
> There is no clear "one test" here, but a collection of small subtests
> - more or less one for each piglit_report_result.
> You don't want to skip the whole thing, because a section is no applicable.

In that case, I think a more correct solution would be to use
piglit_report_subtest_result in the test so that each subtest returns an
individual result.

Dylan
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