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On 08/01/2015 12:22 PM, Greg KH wrote:
>> > My point was that people should be submitting a more significant amount
>> > of test code along with their new ABI - none of the recent syscalls added
>> > has any mention in LTP for example.
> Because most of us hate LTP.
> 
> Seriously, I've lost days of my life many years ago tracing down "kernel
> bugs" that in the end were just bugs in LTP due to the horrid code in
> it.
> 
> Now yes, this was a long time ago, and hopefully it has gotten a lot
> better, but lots of people have this attitude which is why we are
> encouraging people to use the tests in the kernel tree itself, and is
> why new syscalls are all adding their tests there.
> 
> I've encouraged people to take the "good bits" of LTP and add them to
> the kernel test framework, but no one seems to want to do that...

I didn't really mean to focus on LTP here: pick any project that has
a critical mass of users and send them ways to test your code now and
for future changes.


Thanks,
Sasha