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

Christoph Hellwig
2024-10-24T11:14:59Z

On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 12:08:28PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 05:49:09AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
> > So basically, all I need to do to satisfy your request is to add fixes
> > branch that I push to that is pushed after it passes my tests (and not
> > the urgent branch that is still being tested and may have bugs) and
> > then have that be added to linux-next?
>
> > Now I have been batching changes and not send a pull request right
> > after my tests pass. I've been sending a pull request at most now once
> > a week. So I could have this branch hold the code that's already been
> > tested.
>
> Yes, that's what pretty much everyone is doing here. Generally we find
> very few issues this way but it's certainly a non-zero number.

*nod*