Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758962AbXFSPIe (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:08:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759177AbXFSPIU (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:08:20 -0400 Received: from hp3.statik.tu-cottbus.de ([141.43.120.68]:48716 "EHLO hp3.statik.tu-cottbus.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758157AbXFSPIT (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:08:19 -0400 Message-ID: <4677F15D.6000903@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:08:13 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070509 SeaMonkey/1.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Oleg Verych CC: Adrian Bunk , Linus Torvalds , Martin Bligh , Natalie Protasevich , "Fortier,Vincent [Montreal]" , Andrew Morton , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Michal Piotrowski , Andi Kleen , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Diego Calleja , Chuck Ebbert , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: This is [Re:] How to improve the quality of the kernel[?]. References: <4675C083.6080409@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <20070617220927.99ebc1ee.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <32209efe0706181531x5322533dr31dc90e6dd8c7973@mail.gmail.com> <46770A22.4020007@mbligh.org> <32209efe0706181556l2ed378f4sf520c3852f398fa4@mail.gmail.com> <46771C5D.10809@mbligh.org> <20070619124855.GB12950@stusta.de> <20070619140512.GA19904@flower.upol.cz> In-Reply-To: <20070619140512.GA19904@flower.upol.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1160 Lines: 27 Oleg Verych wrote: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 02:48:55PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: >> The -mm kernel already implements what your proposed PTS would do. ... >> Plus it gives testers more or less all patches currently pending >> inclusion into Linus' tree in one kernel they can test. > > Crazy development{0}. Somebody knows, that comprehensively testing > hibernation is their thing. I don't care about it, i care about foo, bar. > Thus i can apply for example lguest patches and implement and test new > asm-offset replacement, *easily*. That's right. But the production of subsystem test patchkits is volunteer work which will be hard to unify. I'm not saying it's impossible to reach some degree of organized production of test patchkits; after all we already have some standardization regarding patch submission which is volunteer work too. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=== -==- =--== http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - 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/