Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Dec 2011 15:32:23 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] selftests: New x86 breakpoints selftest |
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On Fri, 2 Dec 2011 16:41:15 +0100 Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> wrote:
> Bring a first selftest in the relevant directory.
That all looks nice and simple, thanks. Unless I get suitably shouted at I think I'll send all this Linuswards. Then I can hassle people to add their little test snippets as they add userspace-visible features.
I don't think we'd ever want to turn this into some huge kernel verification suite. My thinking here is that I frequently see that people have written little test cases for their new feature, but those test cases just die after the feature is merged. It would be better to maintain and grow these tests as the relevant features are augmented or bugfixed.
All these features are Linux-specific. Standard interface features (eg POSIX) are and should be tested via other externally-maintained test suites.
If the whole idea ends up not working out, we can just delete it all.
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