[ovs-dev] [PATCH] tests: Try harder to figure out whether IPv6 is supported.

[Ben Pfaff]

On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 07:36:39PM -0800, Gregory Rose wrote:
> On 11/13/2017 4:58 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> >Until now, the tests have tried to create an IPv6 socket to figure out
> >whether the system under test supports IPv6.  Recently we've seen test
> >failures on Travis which appear to be because, although the system supports
> >IPv6, test programs are not allowed to connect or bind IPv6 addresses.
> >This commit refines the test for IPv6 to also try to bind the IPv6
> >localhost address, which should convert the test failures to "skip"s.
> >
> >CC: William Tu <u9012063 at gmail.com>
> >CC: Greg Rose <gvrose8192 at gmail.com>
> >Reported-at: https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/8711
> >Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org>
> >---
> >  tests/atlocal.in | 7 ++++++-
> >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Much better.  Thanks!!!
> 
> https://travis-ci.org/gvrose8192/ovs-experimental
> 
> Reviewed-by: Greg Rose <gvrose8192 at gmail.com>

Thanks Greg and William, I applied this to master.