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SubjectRe: [PATCH 5.2 000/413] 5.2.3-stable review
On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 03:19:33PM -0500, Dan Rue wrote:
> I would still prefer to run the latest tests against all kernel versions
> (but better control when we upgrade it). Like I said, we can handle
> expected failures, and it would even help to validate backports for
> fixes that do get backported. I'm afraid on your behalf that snapping
> (and maintaining) branches per kernel branch is going to be a lot to
> manage.

Having the branches would be beneficial for kernel developers as well,
e.g. on multiple occasions I've spent time hunting down non-existent KVM
bugs, only to realize my base kernel was stale with respect to kvm-unit-tests.

My thought was to have a mostly-unmaintained branch for each major kernel
version, e.g. snapshot a working version of kvm_unit_tests when the KVM
pull request for the merge window is sent, and for the most part leave it
at that. I don't think it would introduce much overhead, but then again,
I'm not the person who would be maintaining this :-)

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