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 6D0D6681 for ; Wed, 7 May 2014 03:31:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail9.hitachi.co.jp (mail9.hitachi.co.jp [133.145.228.44]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8E5A20116 for ; Wed, 7 May 2014 03:31:40 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <5369A916.4000206@hitachi.com> Date: Wed, 07 May 2014 12:31:34 +0900 From: Masami Hiramatsu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Li Zefan References: <53662254.9060100@huawei.com> <53699F27.9040403@hitachi.com> <5369A311.2030001@huawei.com> In-Reply-To: <5369A311.2030001@huawei.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] stable issues List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , (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