tests: Moving kernel version check to API.

Signed-off-by: naveen <nguggarigoud@vmware.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/tests/topotests/bgp_communities_topo1/test_bgp_communities.py b/tests/topotests/bgp_communities_topo1/test_bgp_communities.py
index 2726f65ad9..88c5e0df19 100644
--- a/tests/topotests/bgp_communities_topo1/test_bgp_communities.py
+++ b/tests/topotests/bgp_communities_topo1/test_bgp_communities.py
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ import sys
 import time
 import json
 import pytest
-import platform
 
 # Save the Current Working Directory to find configuration files.
 CWD = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
@@ -41,7 +40,7 @@ sys.path.append(os.path.join(CWD, "../"))
 # Import topogen and topotest helpers
 from mininet.topo import Topo
 from lib.topogen import Topogen, get_topogen
-from lib.topotest import version_cmp
+
 # Import topoJson from lib, to create topology and initial configuration
 from lib.common_config import (
     start_topology,
@@ -55,6 +54,7 @@ from lib.common_config import (
     create_route_maps,
     create_prefix_lists,
     create_route_maps,
+    required_linux_kernel_version
 )
 from lib.topolog import logger
 from lib.bgp import (
@@ -103,6 +103,11 @@ def setup_module(mod):
     * `mod`: module name
     """
 
+    # Required linux kernel version for this suite to run.
+    result = required_linux_kernel_version('4.15')
+    if result:
+        pytest.skip(result)
+
     testsuite_run_time = time.asctime(time.localtime(time.time()))
     logger.info("Testsuite start time: {}".format(testsuite_run_time))
     logger.info("=" * 40)
@@ -120,11 +125,6 @@ def setup_module(mod):
     # Creating configuration from JSON
     build_config_from_json(tgen, topo)
 
-    if version_cmp(platform.release(), '4.19') < 0:
-        error_msg = ('These tests will not run. (have kernel "{}", '
-            'requires kernel >= 4.19)'.format(platform.release()))
-        pytest.skip(error_msg)
-
     # Checking BGP convergence
     global BGP_CONVERGENCE
     global ADDR_TYPES