[Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] kernel testing standard

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Wed May 28 18:57:48 UTC 2014


On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 04:37:02PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> make test will be fine for feature verification and some functional
> verification that does not depend on hardware. So new APIs should have test
> cases that demonstrate the feature works and make test would be great for
> that which is something that is not enforced today. As LTP is reported to
> be sane these days for some tests, it could conceivably be wrapped by "make
> test" to avoid duplicating effort there. I think that would be worthwhile
> if someone had the time to push it because it would be an unconditional win.

That is what I have been asking for for _years_.  Hopefully someday
someone does this...

> However, beware of attempting to put all testing under its banner as
> performance testing is never going to fully fit under its umbrella.

No one is saying this is going to be true, but at the least, we want a
way to document _how_ one can run the performance tests if you want to.

thanks,

greg k-h


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