linux-kernel - Re: ktap inclusion in drivers/staging/?

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Date:	Fri, 25 Oct 2013 11:00:01 +0800
From:	Jovi Zhangwei <jovi.zhangwei@...il.com>
To:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>
Cc:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"zhangwei(Jovi)" <jovi.zhangwei@...wei.com>,
	Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@...ux.intel.com>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: ktap inclusion in drivers/staging/?

On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 3:46 AM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
<acme@...stprotocols.net> wrote:
> Em Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 08:11:36PM +0800, Jovi Zhangwei escreveu:
>> I admit there have many places need to cleanup in ktap code, and there
>> also have a long todo list, I will finish it before start review process.
>>
>> Again, really sorry for this, please forgive me this mistake.
>
> Just go eroding it, try to figure out things that could be useful on its
> own, find the right place in the tree, send a flow of small self
> contained patches that comes with tooling that uses whatever new kernel
> feature that is added.
>
> I think that even if you just add a 'perf test' entry that shows how the
> new feature should be used by tooling, exercising it and checking its
> results, so that every time people try 'perf test' it gets re verified,
> that would be ok when no other tools/ living source code exercises it.
>

Nice, I will take some time to look at it.

Thank you.

Jovi
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