From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
To: dlaor@redhat.com
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>,
Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: autotest (was Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [Qemu-commits] [COMMIT f80f9ec] Convert machine registration to use module initfunctions)
Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 14:46:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A19A422.80807@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A18068F.5020700@redhat.com>
Dor Laor wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> Glauber Costa wrote:
>>> How about we start sending patches to the list? Then this kind of
>>> thing can be avoided.
>>>
>>
>> It doesn't magically solve the problem. I post most patches and
>> still regressions slip in. I review every patch I commit and still
>> regressions slip in. People are imperfect.
>>
>> The best way to prevent regressions is to have an automated test
>> suite that everyone can use to validate that a series of patches
>> doesn't break things.
> We have such a frame work, it's the kvm autotest project -
> http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/KVM-Autotest.
Autotest doesn't currently test the regressions that I want to test.
But yeah, I agree with the general point that whatever we use as a
regression suite ought to be drivable by autotest.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-24 19:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200905211348.n4LDmnYd025976@d01av04.pok.ibm.com>
2009-05-21 22:36 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [Qemu-commits] [COMMIT f80f9ec] Convert machine registration to use module initfunctions Paul Brook
2009-05-21 22:50 ` Glauber Costa
2009-05-22 1:34 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-05-22 1:49 ` Glauber Costa
2009-05-22 2:00 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-05-23 14:22 ` autotest (was Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [Qemu-commits] [COMMIT f80f9ec] Convert machine registration to use module initfunctions) Dor Laor
2009-05-24 19:46 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2009-05-24 20:50 ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-26 8:10 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-05-26 9:17 ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-26 9:17 ` Dor Laor
2009-05-26 9:30 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-05-26 9:54 ` Dor Laor
2009-05-22 1:21 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [Qemu-commits] [COMMIT f80f9ec] Convert machine registration to use module initfunctions Anthony Liguori
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