Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Feb 2003 17:33:00 -0200 | From | Edesio Costa e Silva <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.60 cheerleading... |
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On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 12:43:34PM -0600, Paul Larson wrote: > This brings up an interesting point. It seems like it's very common to > have a release that doesn't boot, or produces immediately obvious > problems. I'm curious if you do any testing (LTP or otherwise) on the > kernels you intend to release.
In the words of our fearless leader:
"regression testing"? What's that? If it compiles, it is good, if it boots up it is perfect.
:-)
> If not, would it be possible for someone > to do this? I know we could never catch every problem, but at least the > annoying, immediately noticeable problems could be caught and fixed > quickly. > > If you wanted to do this, I think that would be great. If you don't > have time, I understand but would you be ok with me or anyone else doing > at least a quick sniff test before release? It doesn't have to be > anything fancy or time consuming. I'm not looking to add delays, just a > small amount of extra testing before release so that hopefully more > people will be willing to try the releases on their systems. > > Thanks, > Paul Larson > > On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 09:52, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Just to counteract all the 2.5.60 bug reports... > > > > After the akpm wave of compile fixes, I booted 2.5.60-BK on my Wal-Mart > > PC [via epia], and ran LTP on it, while also stressing it using > > fsx-linux in another window. The LTP run showed a few minor failures, > > but overall 2.5.60-BK is surviving just fine, and with no corruption. > > > > So, it's working great for me :) > > > > - > > 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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