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

Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-25T16:58:01Z

On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 09:47 -0700, David Lang wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Andrew de Quincey wrote:
>
> > On Tuesday 25 July 2006 10:55, Arnaud Patard wrote:
> >> Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> writes:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>> We (the -stable team) are announcing the release of the 2.6.17.7 kernel.
> >>
> >> Sorry, but doesn't compile if DVB_BUDGET_AV is set :(
> >>
> >>> Andrew de Quincey:
> >>> v4l/dvb: Fix budget-av frontend detection
> >
> >
> > In fact it is just this patch causing the problem:
> <SNIP>
> > Sorry, I had so much work going on in that area I must have diffed the wrong
> > kernel when I created this patch. :(
>
> is it reasonable to have an aotomated test figure out what config options are
> relavent to a patch (or patchset) and test compile all the combinations to catch
> this sort of mistake?

well you can do such a thing withing statistical bounds; however... if
the patch already is in -git (as is -stable policy normally).. it should
have been found there already...

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