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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] kernel testing standard
Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 11:57:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140528185748.GA30673@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140528153702.GU23991@suse.de>

On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 04:37:02PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> make test will be fine for feature verification and some functional
> verification that does not depend on hardware. So new APIs should have test
> cases that demonstrate the feature works and make test would be great for
> that which is something that is not enforced today. As LTP is reported to
> be sane these days for some tests, it could conceivably be wrapped by "make
> test" to avoid duplicating effort there. I think that would be worthwhile
> if someone had the time to push it because it would be an unconditional win.

That is what I have been asking for for _years_.  Hopefully someday
someone does this...

> However, beware of attempting to put all testing under its banner as
> performance testing is never going to fully fit under its umbrella.

No one is saying this is going to be true, but at the least, we want a
way to document _how_ one can run the performance tests if you want to.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-28 18:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-23 11:47 Masami Hiramatsu
2014-05-23 13:32 ` Jason Cooper
2014-05-23 16:24   ` Olof Johansson
2014-05-23 16:35     ` Guenter Roeck
2014-05-23 16:36     ` Jason Cooper
2014-05-23 18:10     ` Masami Hiramatsu
2014-05-23 18:36       ` Jason Cooper
2014-05-23 18:06   ` Masami Hiramatsu
2014-05-23 18:32     ` Jason Cooper
2014-05-23 14:05 ` Justin M. Forbes
2014-05-23 16:04   ` Mark Brown
2014-05-24  0:30   ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-05-24  1:15     ` Guenter Roeck
2014-05-26 11:33     ` Masami Hiramatsu
2014-05-30 18:35       ` Steven Rostedt
2014-05-30 20:59         ` Kees Cook
2014-05-30 22:53         ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-06-04 13:51           ` Masami Hiramatsu
2014-05-26 17:08     ` Daniel Vetter
2014-05-26 18:21       ` Mark Brown
2014-05-28 15:37 ` Mel Gorman
2014-05-28 18:57   ` Greg KH [this message]
2014-05-30 12:07     ` Linus Walleij
2014-06-05  0:23       ` Greg KH
2014-06-05  6:54         ` Mel Gorman
2014-06-05  8:30           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2014-06-05  8:44             ` chrubis
2014-06-05  8:53             ` Daniel Vetter
2014-06-05 11:17               ` Masami Hiramatsu
2014-06-05 11:58                 ` Daniel Vetter
2014-06-06  9:10                   ` Masami Hiramatsu
2014-06-05 14:10             ` James Bottomley
2014-06-06  9:17               ` Masami Hiramatsu
2014-06-09 14:44               ` chrubis
2014-06-09 17:54                 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2014-06-05  8:39           ` chrubis

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