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From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: How do you test Linux kernel?
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 09:39:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160720163952.GA14809@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160720141927.2615cc23@fujitsu>

On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 02:19:27PM +0300, Aleksander Alekseev wrote:
> Hello
> 
> It is my understanding that Linux kernel doesn't has usual `make check`
> or `make test` command.

It doesn't?  Have you checked?

$ make help | grep test
Kernel selftest
  kselftest       - Build and run kernel selftest (run as root)
                    running kselftest on it
  kselftest-clean - Remove all generated kselftest files
  kselftest-merge - Merge all the config dependencies of kselftest to existed

> There are LTP [1] and other related projects
> instead. Could you tell me please what test suits (if any) do _you_ run
> in practice?

It depends on what changes you make, to determine how you test it.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-20 16:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-20 11:19 How do you test Linux kernel? Aleksander Alekseev
2016-07-20 16:39 ` Greg KH [this message]
2016-07-20 22:50 ` [SPAM] " Bernd Petrovitsch

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