Re: what trees/branches to test on syzbot

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Tue Jan 16 2018 - 04:45:58 EST


On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 11:51 PM, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Several people proposed that linux-next should not be tested on
> syzbot. While some people suggested that it needs to test as many
> trees as possible. I've initially included linux-next as it is a
> staging area before upstream tree, with the intention that patches are
> _tested_ there, is they are not tested there, bugs enter upstream
> tree. And then it takes much longer to get fix into other trees.
>
> So the question is: what trees/branches should be tested? Preferably
> in priority order as syzbot can't test all of them.
>

I always thought that -next existed specifically to give people a
chance to test the code in it. Maybe the question is where to report
the test results ?

Guenter