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

Vlastimil Babka
2024-10-23T09:32:52Z

On 10/23/24 10:20, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> To put it this way. The bugs I'm fixing was for code in linux-next
> where the bugs were never found. They only appeared when they went into
> Linus's tree. So why put the fixes in linux-next, if it didn't catch
> the bugs I fixed in the first place?

The fix might be in a different part of the code, one that's stressed by
-next testing even if the code with the original bug wasn't. So I don't
think you can always assume that -next not catching the original bug means
it can't catch a bug in the fix?