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 ESMTPS id 1EC9C2CBE for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2018 21:14:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pg1-f181.google.com (mail-pg1-f181.google.com [209.85.215.181]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BA40BFD for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2018 21:14:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pg1-f181.google.com with SMTP id a5-v6so11423875pgv.13 for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2018 14:14:49 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Guenter Roeck Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 14:14:46 -0700 From: Guenter Roeck To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" Message-ID: <20181016211446.GA28549@roeck-us.net> References: <20181016021254.GA21220@thunk.org> <3af0bf1d-6dea-2736-b4f0-171db8a2d447@de.ibm.com> <20181016205109.GB14947@thunk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20181016205109.GB14947@thunk.org> Cc: ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] new topic: regression test infrastructure? (was Draft Maintainer's Summit Agenda and Attendees - ) List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 04:51:09PM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 09:53:06PM +0200, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > > > > > > On 10/16/2018 04:12 AM, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > > > This is the draft agenda for the Maintainer's Summit which I and the > > > program committee have come up with: > > > [..] > > > 2:30 TBD > > > [..] > > > 4:30 TBD > > > > Does it make sense to talk about existing test infrastructure > > (like syzbot,Geert Uytterhoeven and Guenter Roecks reports as well as all the others) > > What architectures are missing? Is it ok to run tests in-house and only report errors? > > What test scenarios are missing? > > This would probably be better suited at the Kernel Summit track in > Vancouver next month, as there will be a much larger number of kernel > developers there. The Maintainer's Summit is intended to focus much > more process issues than specific technical questions. > In Edinburgh: https://elinux.org/Automated_Testing_Summit In Vancouver: https://blog.linuxplumbersconf.org/2018/testing-and-fuzzing-mc/ While is it good to see the increased interest in testing, I am not sure if it makes sense to add yet another venue to discuss it. Guenter > Also, some of these questions are best answered by those who can bring > resources to the table. For example, it's easy for someone to point > out that some architecture, like Itanium or pa-risc are "missing". > But the people to whom we would need to be having that conversation > would be Intel and HP, respectively, and both would likely say that > those architectures are obscelent, and so they would probably decline > to provide those resources. > > Similarly, the question of whether, say, Power, or Z series, or Risc-V > are "missing" are best targetted at the companies which back those > architectures. > > - Ted > _______________________________________________ > Ksummit-discuss mailing list > Ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ksummit-discuss