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

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Message-ID: <658bb573-69f5-4873-98d3-9e9d6412966d@sirena.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 12:08:28 +0100
From: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>, Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	ksummit@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linus-next: improving functional testing for to-be-merged pull
 requests

On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 05:49:09AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> So basically, all I need to do to satisfy your request is to add fixes
> branch that I push to that is pushed after it passes my tests (and not
> the urgent branch that is still being tested and may have bugs) and
> then have that be added to linux-next?

> Now I have been batching changes and not send a pull request right
> after my tests pass. I've been sending a pull request at most now once
> a week. So I could have this branch hold the code that's already been
> tested.

Yes, that's what pretty much everyone is doing here.  Generally we find
very few issues this way but it's certainly a non-zero number.

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