linux-kernel - RE: selftests: question about git repos containing selftest.

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Date:	Tue, 9 Dec 2014 15:25:42 -0500
From:	"Young, David" <dayoung@...mai.com>
To:	Shuah Khan <shuahkhan@...il.com>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:	"linux-api@...r.kernel.org" <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
	"shuahkh@....samsung.com" <shuahkh@....samsung.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: selftests: question about git repos containing selftest.

Thanks, I was definitely looking at the master branch of linux-kselftest.

There are still more changes in linux-next repo, should those be considered as "in progress"?

-dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Shuah Khan [mailto:shuahkhan@...il.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2014 3:21 PM
To: Greg KH
Cc: Young, David; linux-api@...r.kernel.org; shuahkh@....samsung.com; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: selftests: question about git repos containing selftest.

On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 02:22:42PM -0500, Young, David wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I'm trying out the new kernel selftests and was looking for the "bleeding edge" repository to clone.  According to the wiki https://kselftest.wiki.kernel.org/ this is the appropriate repo:
>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest.g
>> it
>>
>> However, I am finding newer and more frequent changes are in linux-next.
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git
>>
>> Which should I clone for the most fresh changes?
>
> Are you sure you are looking at the correct branch for that git repo?
> Which one were you using?
>

Please find the patches slated for 3.19--rc1 in fixes branch. These are the ones that get pulled into linux-next for integration testing.

-- Shuah