From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
kernel-bugzilla@luksan.cjb.net
Subject: Re: quality control
Date: 06 Feb 2006 12:09:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73hd7clp5k.fsf@verdi.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAFD888C-7E6B-49B1-A394-901D24CFBCBF@mac.com>
Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com> writes:
>
> It's a GIT version of an RC patch for grief's sake! You don't
> seriously expect people to quadruple-check every trivial patch that
> goes into Linus GIT tree before sending it, do you?
No quadruple check, but every patch going to Linus should get at least
some basic testing and it's definitely suppose to compile at least
in one .config combination.
> The whole point
> of the RC is to indicate that only smaller patches should be applied
> (and this one was for the most part) so that we can do some kind of
> global-kernel QC.
global kernel QA doesn't replace individual patch QA. Black box
testing is no replacement for targetted tests.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-06 11:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2006-02-06 3:15 ` quality control Hans Reiser
2006-02-06 3:39 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-02-06 9:09 ` Jens Axboe
2006-02-06 9:15 ` Martin Mares
2006-02-06 11:09 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-02-06 13:31 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-02-06 13:44 ` Jens Axboe
2006-02-07 22:44 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-08 8:45 ` Jens Axboe
2006-02-06 19:27 ` Olaf Hering
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