Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] stable issues

[Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>]

(2014/05/07 12:05), Li Zefan wrote:
> On 2014/5/7 10:49, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
>> (2014/05/04 20:19), Li Zefan wrote:
>>> - Testing stable kernels
>>>
>>> The testing of stable kernels when a new version is under review seems
>>> quite limited. We have Dave's Trinity and Fengguang's 0day, but they
>>> are run on mainline/for-next only. Would be useful to also have them
>>> run on stable kernels?
>>
>> This might be a kind of off-topic, but I'm interested in the testing
>> on the linux kernel, especially standard framework of unit-tests
>> for each feature.
>>
>> I see the Trinity and Fengguang's 0day test are useful. But for newer
>> introduced features/bugfixes, would we have a standard tests?
>> (for some subsystems have own selftests, but not unified.)
>>
> 
> I kind of remember Andrew once suggested a new feature can't be accepted
> unless it comes with test cases?

Yeah, that's a good suggestion :)

And I think we should have a unified test framework which can drive
such test cases, and document how to add a test case within
a series of patches. It would be great if we can point out
which feature/commit is broken because of a test-case failure. :)

Thank you,

-- 
Masami HIRAMATSU
Software Platform Research Dept. Linux Technology Research Center
Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory
E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com