From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758585Ab1LGXcZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Dec 2011 18:32:25 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:33438 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752621Ab1LGXcY (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Dec 2011 18:32:24 -0500 Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 15:32:23 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: LKML , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , Jason Wessel , Will Deacon Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] selftests: New x86 breakpoints selftest Message-Id: <20111207153223.4885bab9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1322840475-19553-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> References: <1322840475-19553-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> <1322840475-19553-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.20.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2 Dec 2011 16:41:15 +0100 Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > Bring a first selftest in the relevant directory. That all looks nice and simple, thanks. Unless I get suitably shouted at I think I'll send all this Linuswards. Then I can hassle people to add their little test snippets as they add userspace-visible features. I don't think we'd ever want to turn this into some huge kernel verification suite. My thinking here is that I frequently see that people have written little test cases for their new feature, but those test cases just die after the feature is merged. It would be better to maintain and grow these tests as the relevant features are augmented or bugfixed. All these features are Linux-specific. Standard interface features (eg POSIX) are and should be tested via other externally-maintained test suites. If the whole idea ends up not working out, we can just delete it all.