[dpdk-dev] Which tests are compulsory to PASS for Patch to be accepted

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Thu, 28 May 2020 01:13:27 +0500
Muhammad Bilal <m.bilal at emumba.com> wrote:

> Recently I have submitted patches and some tests were failing on patchwork.
> My question is, which tests are compulsory to pass for a patch to be accepted.
> As in the below mentioned patch, it is accepted while 1 test was still failing.
> http://patches.dpdk.org/patch/70348/
> 
> kind regards.
> Muhammad Bilal

There are two different issues:
  1. A patch should not get blamed for some failure in the CI infrastructure.
     Or collataral damage from an earlier merge.
  2. A patch must not introduce a failure. I.e. if all tests passed before
     each patch in a patchset must pass.