Nivedita Singhvi wrote:
> On that note, we were going to start testing the merge patch
> tree starting this week.
Hm, do you mean the stuff in the ozlabs tree? The series varies from
fairly solid at one end to completely broken/experimental at the other,
so there's not much point in testing the whole thing. It would
certainly be reasonable to test the initial part of the patch series though.
> Initial plan is to pull and test once
> a week - but we can do that more often if you need. While
> I obviously don't want to hold things up to get into mainline,
> I would like to have xm-test run successfully (as per baseline)
> before it goes into -mm. Would that be acceptable to folks
> on this list, particularly the merge developers? Or some lesser
> sanity check?
>
Some sanity testing seems reasonable to me. I wouldn't want to post
anything completely broken, but I'm not sure we need to go for intense
testing at this point. The main thing I'm looking for is review
comments to make sure that people are happy with the general design
direction and so on, rather than "these are the final patches". But the
patches have to be basically working and usable on some reasonable
configuration, otherwise they can't really be evaluated.
J
