Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Sep 2006 23:20:57 +0159 | From | Jiri Slaby <> | Subject | Re: [RFC patch] MAINTAINERS: encourage testers to volunteer |
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Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 01:14:24PM -0600, Jim Cromie wrote: >> Add a new entry-type into MAINTAINERS whereby folks with hardware can >> volunteer to >> test patches to the driver. It should encourage folks to put themselves >> "on the hook" >> in trade for a little bit of notoriety. >> >> Hopefully this will help improve: >> - support for rare hardware >> - QA on that hardware >> - connections between hackers & testers >> - would-be hackers can find new things to do, esp in less visited parts >> of the dist. >> >> Additions should be approved by maintainers etc, but thats no different >> than is currently done. > > There are currently 97 different saa7134 card types supported by the > kernel. Do we need an entry for each of them (each card type has it's > own specific support)?
It's utterly sufficient to know about only one person, who have that piece of hardware in most cases -- to test the core of the driver, not all specific parts. Something like to test it at least roughly.
> And this information will become outdated much faster than updated > (even the maintainers entries are sometimes outdated).
When akpm proposed this, I agreed (but still have no contacts to post a patch), because I needed somebody to test a driver I had rewritten a little bit, but there was no place to take a look... But his thoughts were a little bit different, he considered creating a separate file named TESTERS and there have a list of these "qa people" (even for one specific piece of hw if necessary). [I hope I did understand him correctly...]
>> --- doc-touches/MAINTAINERS~ 2006-09-14 11:50:03.000000000 -0600 >> +++ doc-touches/MAINTAINERS 2006-09-14 12:19:13.000000000 -0600 >> @@ -80,6 +80,12 @@ >> it has been replaced by a better system and you >> should be using that. >> >> +V: Validation/Test contact and hardware they can test. >> + >> + Identifies folks who are willing to test driver patches, etc. >> + Also can identify lack of hardware for otherwize maintained drivers >> + by using 'none' >> + >> 3C359 NETWORK DRIVER >> P: Mike Phillips >> M: mikep@linuxtr.net
regards, -- http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/ Jiri Slaby faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz e-mail: jirislaby gmail com, gpg pubkey fingerprint: B674 9967 0407 CE62 ACC8 22A0 32CC 55C3 39D4 7A7E - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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