From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BC0E99F for ; Fri, 30 May 2014 22:53:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from imap.thunk.org (imap.thunk.org [74.207.234.97]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0B68A20246 for ; Fri, 30 May 2014 22:53:30 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 18:53:21 -0400 From: Theodore Ts'o To: Steven Rostedt Message-ID: <20140530225321.GA20492@thunk.org> References: <537F3551.2070104@hitachi.com> <1400853902.31124.5.camel@fedora64.linuxtx.org> <20140524003036.GB26422@thunk.org> <53832692.9020802@hitachi.com> <20140530143530.5816c980@gandalf.local.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140530143530.5816c980@gandalf.local.home> Cc: ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] kernel testing standard List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 02:35:30PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > I agree with this. Just having a single place to put tests or tell > people where the tests are would be a huge improvement. If I wanted to > run my own tests on ext file systems, I should be able to set up the > same environment that Ted uses. And you can! https://git.kernel.org/cgit/fs/ext2/xfstests-bld.git/tree/README My test environment has been designed so it's fully reproducible, and I've been pushing ext4 developers to use it before submitting me patches. And if they don't, and I detect a problem which bisects back to one of their patches, I let them know gently that if they had used kvm-xfstests, they would have detected earlier. Maybe just adding a field in the MAINTAINERS file which contains a pointer to the tests is the simplest solution? > If someone wants to run my ftrace tests, then they should be able to > as well (which I need to make available to the general > public). Better yet, this can open up a door for people to > contribute to new tests for a particular subsystem. I would love it > if people added tests for me to run on ftrace. I have a bunch of > hacks to test various functionality (as they are hacky, that's the > reason I haven't posted them yet). Yeah, it took a while before I had done enough cleanup that I was willing to make thme fully public. Now that I have, it's saved me a lot of time, most definitely. - Ted