We have had this change upstream for several years now, which makes it possible to set 'offlineExpansion: false' in the test manifest to skip offline expansion tests:

https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109580

As far as I know, ibm-vpc-block-csi-driver is the only one that we maintain that does not support it. I had to add a TEST_SKIPS variable here temporarily:

https://github.com/openshift/release/blob/8d2265cdb049ef3f7286e85d19c62af4f3bae1d4/ci-operator/step-registry/openshift/e2e/ibmcloud/csi/openshift-e2e-ibmcloud-csi-workflow.yaml#L19-L20

We should add 'offlineExpansion: false' to https://github.com/openshift/ibm-vpc-block-csi-driver-operator/blob/main/test/e2e/manifest.yaml -- it's a single line change, and if we backport it all the way to 4.12 then we can also drop that TEST_SKIPS workaround from openshift/release.

    4.12 - 4.19

    100% without TEST_SKIPS workaround

    1. Set TEST_CSI_DRIVER_MANIFEST and TEST_CSI_DRIVER_FILES to point to the test/e2e/manifest.yaml from ibm-vpc-block-csi-driver-operator
    2. Set KUBECONFIG to point to IBM VPC cluster
    3. Run './openshift-tests run openshift/csi' (from openshift/origin repo)     

    Offline expansion test reports failure

    Offline expanstion test should be skipped