Re: linus-next: improving functional testing for to-be-merged pull requests

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 at 11:37, Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Functional testing?

Yes. Things like the stuff that Guenter does every -rc, and that
invariably finds several issues every single merge window.

Like actually booting up the kernel on multiple different odd
architectures. But also much more complex things than just running a
torture test for a very small piece of the kernel.

The same way linux-next does the build testing on many different
architectures, and that often finds things that developers missed
simply because the bulk of developers are still purely on x86-64.

              Linus