Re: Are there kernel testing suites out there? We need them.
Dan Kegel (dank@alumni.caltech.edu)
Sun, 04 Jul 1999 16:19:43 -0700
Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > That works, but adding a mechanized regression test would
> > be painless, and might give us earlier warnings if and when
> > a few bad things (like ext2 fs corruption) creep back into
>
> Automatic regression tests very rarely help. Most of the bugs that
> get into a shipping kernel now are ones I can't reproduce even given a
> description let alone find randomly
That's a good argument for setting up an automated oops
reporting system people can use without doing any funny
hardware configuration (e.g. using the video card to store
the oops across boot). That way, we might get good statistics
on even the least common problems.
- Dan
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