Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Jul 2019 13:57:01 -0700 | From | Sean Christopherson <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5.2 000/413] 5.2.3-stable review |
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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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