Re: [PATCH] selftests: ALSA: Skip utimer test when CONFIG_SND_UTIMER is not enabled

[Takashi Iwai]

On Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:45:21 +0100,
Ben Copeland wrote:
> 
> The timer_f.utimer test hard-fails with ASSERT_EQ when
> SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_CREATE returns -1 on kernels without
> CONFIG_SND_UTIMER. This causes the entire alsa kselftest suite to
> report a failure rather than skipping the unsupported test.
> 
> When CONFIG_SND_UTIMER is not enabled, the ioctl is not recognised and
> the kernel returns -ENOTTY. If the timer device or subdevice does not
> exist, -ENXIO is returned. Skip the test in both cases, but still fail
> on any other unexpected error.
> 
> Suggested-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kselftest/0e9c25d3-efbd-433b-9fb1-0923010101b9@stanley.mountain/
> Signed-off-by: Ben Copeland <ben.copeland@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to for-next branch now.  Thanks.


Takashi