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

Linus Torvalds
2024-10-23T18:10:04Z

On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 at 11:05, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
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> And that is a good day. Sometimes dozens of builds and hundreds
> of boot tests fail. Analyzing those failures would be a full-time job.
> Who do you expect would or should do that ?

Yeah, this is the problem. I think it's only useful if some automation
(not humans! That would make people burn out immediately) can actually
pinpoint the trees that introduced the failures.

And I think that would be absolutely lovely. But I suspect the testing
requirements then have latencies long enough that getting to that
point might not be entirely realistic.

Linus