Re: [PATCH 4.9 00/95] 4.9.96-stable review

[Dan Rue]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 09:26:35AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 05:25:53PM -0500, Dan Rue wrote:
> > I made a few comments inline regarding the reported failures. Also, as
> > this report is pushing 200 lines now with all of our tests and
> > environments (about 8*22 test runs), I'm planning on making some changes
> > in the next few weeks to make it more concise and useful. Any
> > suggestions or feature requests are most welcome.
> 
> How about only reporting problems?  Having tests "pass" is the norm and
> should always happen, right?  That would make the reports smaller.

I agree, though I would like to provide a bit of context so that people
new to the process have some idea about testing breadth and depth - but
it should be a few lines, rather than the hundreds that we have now.

Dan