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

[Guenter Roeck]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 12:23:11PM -0500, Dan Rue wrote:
> 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

I did that initially, but found that it is only confusing. Sure, there
should be a means to look up the actual tests, but for the notification e-mail
only pass/fail is relevant.

I found that even "skipped" is confusing, because people started asking why
tests are being skipped.

Guenter