Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] stable issues

[Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>]

(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