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 4201089C for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2014 08:30:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ig0-f181.google.com (mail-ig0-f181.google.com [209.85.213.181]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3A3EA1F952 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2014 08:30:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ig0-f181.google.com with SMTP id h3so2029592igd.8 for ; Thu, 05 Jun 2014 01:30:45 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: geert.uytterhoeven@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20140605065455.GM10819@suse.de> References: <537F3551.2070104@hitachi.com> <20140528153702.GU23991@suse.de> <20140528185748.GA30673@kroah.com> <20140605002331.GB24037@kroah.com> <20140605065455.GM10819@suse.de> Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 10:30:45 +0200 Message-ID: From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Mel Gorman Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: "ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org" , chrubis@suse.cz Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] kernel testing standard List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Mel Gorman wrote: > There is a hazard that someone bisecting the tree would need to be careful > to not bisect LTP instead. That may actually be a good reason not to import LTP... I'd imagine you usually want to bisect the kernel to find when a regression was introduced in the syscall API. Is there a reason not to run the latest version of LTP (unless bisecting LTP ;-)? The syscall API is supposed to be stable. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds