linux-kernel - Re: automated test? (was Re: Linux 2.6.17.7)

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Message-ID: <m3ac6xzbqx.fsf@anduin.mandriva.com>
Date:	Tue, 25 Jul 2006 22:10:46 +0200
From:	Arnaud Patard <apatard@...driva.com>
To:	David Lang <dlang@...italinsight.com>
Cc:	Andrew de Quincey <adq_dvb@...skialf.net>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: automated test? (was Re: Linux 2.6.17.7)

David Lang <dlang@...italinsight.com> writes:

> On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Andrew de Quincey wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday 25 July 2006 10:55, Arnaud Patard wrote:
>>> Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> writes:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>> We (the -stable team) are announcing the release of the 2.6.17.7 kernel.
>>>
>>> Sorry, but doesn't compile if DVB_BUDGET_AV is set :(
>>>
>>>> Andrew de Quincey:
>>>>       v4l/dvb: Fix budget-av frontend detection
>>
>>
>> In fact it is just this patch causing the problem:
> <SNIP>
>> Sorry, I had so much work going on in that area I must have diffed the wrong
>> kernel when I created this patch. :(
>
> is it reasonable to have an aotomated test figure out what config options are 
> relavent to a patch (or patchset) and test compile all the combinations to catch 
> this sort of mistake?

you'll probably need to find some heuristics which may be quite hard to
do. It would be easier imho to use some scripts like this one :
http://developer.osdl.org/~cherry/compile/ 

It's often enough to catch compile failures


Arnaud Patard

>
> David Lang

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