On 17 October 2017 at 01:14, Tom Gall tom.gall@linaro.org wrote:
This past RC cycle I think we exposed a weakness in what we have in LKFT where the ability to execute some key functional stacks in the system to drive the kernel would probably be useful for validation.
The networking bug involving dhclient for example.
So what if we used either Debian, Gentoo or akin that has a mechanism that has as part of it’s packaging system a test target for each package. Simplest build a package, runs ‘make test’ (or akin) for some key packages that exercises parts of the system that should help tickle the kernel in interesting ways to tease out regressions.
Thus wouldn’t work on modest boards but the socionext or Juno boards could probably work fine.
Thoughts?
There are 53 open bugs, at least 3 test jobs fail on every attempt and we struggle to point the root cause of the failures we already capture. In this situation adding more tests is the worst idea possible. IMHO the the current highest priority should be 'making all tests green'. Once that happens (through bu fixes or disabling tests) we can add new tests.
milosz
Regards, Tom
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