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 2616D8B4 for ; Wed, 7 May 2014 11:45:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail7.hitachi.co.jp (mail7.hitachi.co.jp [133.145.228.42]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CF1D1FB51 for ; Wed, 7 May 2014 11:45:13 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <536A1CC3.5090506@hitachi.com> Date: Wed, 07 May 2014 20:45:07 +0900 From: Masami Hiramatsu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Fleming References: <53662254.9060100@huawei.com> <53699F27.9040403@hitachi.com> <1399431538.2581.30.camel@buesod1.americas.hpqcorp.net> <5369EE59.9040805@hitachi.com> <20140507083936.GY26088@console-pimps.org> In-Reply-To: <20140507083936.GY26088@console-pimps.org> 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 17:39), Matt Fleming wrote: > On Wed, 07 May, at 05:27:05PM, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: >> >> IOW, would the test cases be better to be out-of-tree or in-tree? If it is >> out-of-tree(like LTP), how can we maintain both test-cases and upstream kernels? >> What infrastructure should we have (e.g. bugzilla which provides a database for >> relationship between bug# and test-case) ? >> Those are my interests :) > > There's definitely huge merit in having in-tree tests like the current > selftests stuff because it allows you to roll up fixes and regression > tests into a single commit, see commit 123abd76edf5 ("efivars: > efivarfs_valid_name() should handle pstore syntax"). > Ah, that's a good example for adding new feature/bugfix with test case! :) I think this type of combined patch will be good to run tests with git-bisect. At least out-of-tree test should work with git-bisect. Thank you, -- Masami HIRAMATSU Software Platform Research Dept. Linux Technology Research Center Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com