Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 11/11] selftests: forwarding: Add a test for NH group stats

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 10:52:49 -0700

On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 17:30:54 +0100 Petr Machata wrote:
> But I don't think SKIP should trump PASS. IMHO SKIP is the weakest
> status, soon as you have one PASS, that's what the overall outcome
> should be. I guess the logic behind it was that it's useful to see the
> tests that skip?

SKIP is a signal that something could not be run. People maintaining
CIs will try to investigate why. The signal for "everything is working
as expected" is PASS, possibly XFAIL if you want to signal that
the test didn't run/pass but that's expected.