[PATCH] test/event_eth_tx_adapter: skip tests if no eventdev

[David Marchand]

On Tue, 21 Jul 2026 at 13:57, Bruce Richardson
<bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:
>
> If there is no eventdev present, and the SW eventdev driver is not
> available, skip the eth tx adapter tests, rather than failing on event
> creation.
>
> Note: We keep the failure case where we do have the event/sw driver
> built, but fail to create an instance of it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
> ---
>  app/test/test_event_eth_tx_adapter.c | 10 ++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/app/test/test_event_eth_tx_adapter.c b/app/test/test_event_eth_tx_adapter.c
> index bec298a8b8..18801028ce 100644
> --- a/app/test/test_event_eth_tx_adapter.c
> +++ b/app/test/test_event_eth_tx_adapter.c
> @@ -202,12 +202,13 @@ deinit_ports(void)
>  static int
>  testsuite_setup(void)
>  {
> -       const char *vdev_name = "event_sw0";
> -
>         int err = init_ports();
>         TEST_ASSERT(err == 0, "Port initialization failed err %d\n", err);
>
> +#ifdef RTE_EVENT_SW
>         if (rte_event_dev_count() == 0) {
> +               const char *vdev_name = "event_sw0";
> +
>                 printf("Failed to find a valid event device,"
>                         " testing with event_sw0 device\n");
>                 err = rte_vdev_init(vdev_name, NULL);
> @@ -215,6 +216,11 @@ testsuite_setup(void)
>                         vdev_name, err);
>                 event_dev_delete = 1;
>         }
> +#endif
> +       if (rte_event_dev_count() == 0) {
> +               printf("Failed to find a valid event device, skipping test\n");
> +               return TEST_SKIPPED;
> +       }

It seems strange to reevaluate this part here.

rte_vdev_init succeeded but we still have no eventdev object?
That should be a failure to me.


-- 
David Marchand