Re: automated test? (was Re: Linux 2.6.17.7)

Adrian Bunk
2006-07-26T15:02:04Z

On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 03:39:49PM +0100, Andrew de Quincey wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 July 2006 15:29, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>...
> > The real problem is:
> > How do we get some testing coverage of -stable kernels by users to catch
> > issues?
> > And compile errors are the least of my worries.
>
> Yeah - I believe some people did test the DVB -stable patches, but obviously
> without the budget-av driver compile option enabled, so it didn't compile
> that code. DVB supports quite a few cards, so its easy to accidentally leave
> off one of the options when doing a mass compile of all drivers.
>
> The only thing I can think of would be to require -stable patch submitters to
> supply a list of CONFIG options that must be on to enable compilation of the
> new code so people know exactly how to enable it for testing... but obviously
> since those would be manually specified, they can be wrong too. But at least
> it would show they'd thought about it a bit....

This helps only with compilation errors, which are as I said the least
of my worries.

But does the hardware driven by this driver work?
And if it does, is there a bug in the patch that causes the kernel to
crash after some hours?

cu
Adrian

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