[Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] stable issues

[Li Zefan]

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?

> I guess tools/testing/selftest will be an answer. If so, I think
> we'd better send bugfixes with a test-case to check the bug is fixed
> (and ensure no regression in future), wouldn't it?
> 
> Thank you,
>