Thanks. So, if we change the expect string to "RTE>", the warning will not trigger the expect and unit tests will complete before the execution proceeds? Sounds good. 

On Wed, Jul 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM Manit Mahajan <mmahajan@iol.unh.edu> wrote:
The compress unit test uses send_expect() with '>' to determine
when the command completed. A recent patch introduced a
deprecation warning for coremask, which includes a '>' in the
output. This causes send_expect() to exit early,
resulting in missed test output, leading to false failures.

This is fixed by changing the expected termination prompt from
'>' to 'RTE>'. This change address issues from the v1 patch,
which incorrectly modified the EAL option from coremask to
corelist.

Signed-off-by: Manit Mahajan <mmahajan@iol.unh.edu>
---
 tests/compress_common.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tests/compress_common.py b/tests/compress_common.py
index aa591270..b4fd1921 100644
--- a/tests/compress_common.py
+++ b/tests/compress_common.py
@@ -106,8 +106,8 @@ def run_unit(test_case, eal={}):
     cmdline = "./{app_path} {eal}".format(
         app_path=test_case.dut.apps_name["test"], eal=eal_str
     )
-    test_case.dut.send_expect(cmdline, ">", 30)
-    out = test_case.dut.send_expect("compressdev_autotest", ">", 30)
+    test_case.dut.send_expect(cmdline, "RTE>", 30)
+    out = test_case.dut.send_expect("compressdev_autotest", "RTE>", 30)
     test_case.dut.send_expect("quit", "# ", 30)
     print(out)

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