Re: linus-next: improving functional testing for to-be-merged pull requests

Paul E. McKenney
2024-10-23T20:22:45Z

On Wed, Oct 23, 2024 at 12:24:05PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 at 11:37, Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Functional testing?
>
> Yes. Things like the stuff that Guenter does every -rc, and that
> invariably finds several issues every single merge window.
>
> Like actually booting up the kernel on multiple different odd
> architectures. But also much more complex things than just running a
> torture test for a very small piece of the kernel.
>
> The same way linux-next does the build testing on many different
> architectures, and that often finds things that developers missed
> simply because the bulk of developers are still purely on x86-64.

Fair point, my testing is still strictly x86-64.

Thanx, Paul