From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M8Jer-000140-5I for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 24 May 2009 15:46:57 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M8Jel-00013o-Mb for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 24 May 2009 15:46:55 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52644 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M8Jel-00013l-FC for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 24 May 2009 15:46:51 -0400 Received: from e3.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.143]:34918) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M8Jel-0002uB-3T for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 24 May 2009 15:46:51 -0400 Received: from d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (d01relay04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.236]) by e3.ny.us.ibm.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n4OJgFIC014051 for ; Sun, 24 May 2009 15:42:15 -0400 Received: from d01av02.pok.ibm.com (d01av02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.216]) by d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.2) with ESMTP id n4OJkicY248894 for ; Sun, 24 May 2009 15:46:44 -0400 Received: from d01av02.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av02.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id n4OJie9e001734 for ; Sun, 24 May 2009 15:44:40 -0400 Message-ID: <4A19A422.80807@us.ibm.com> Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 14:46:42 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: autotest (was Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [Qemu-commits] [COMMIT f80f9ec] Convert machine registration to use module initfunctions) References: <200905211348.n4LDmnYd025976@d01av04.pok.ibm.com> <200905212336.02493.paul@codesourcery.com> <20090521225039.GA26811@poweredge.glommer> <4A160138.7050109@us.ibm.com> <4A18068F.5020700@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4A18068F.5020700@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: dlaor@redhat.com Cc: Glauber Costa , Paul Brook , qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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