From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steven Rostedt Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] & [TECH TOPIC] Improve regression tracking Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 12:10:00 -0400 Message-ID: <20170705121000.5430d7d0@gandalf.local.home> References: <576cea07-770a-4864-c3f5-0832ff211e94@leemhuis.info> <20170703123025.7479702e@gandalf.local.home> <20170705084528.67499f8c@gandalf.local.home> <4080ecc7-1aa8-2940-f230-1b79d656cdb4@redhat.com> <20170705092757.63dc2328@gandalf.local.home> <20170705140607.GA30187@kroah.com> <20170705103335.0cbd9984@gandalf.local.home> <8c6843e8-73d9-a898-0366-0b72dfeb79a2@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <8c6843e8-73d9-a898-0366-0b72dfeb79a2-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-api-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Carlos O'Donell Cc: Greg KH , Thorsten Leemhuis , ksummit-discuss-cunTk1MwBs98uUxBSJOaYoYkZiVZrdSR2LY78lusg7I@public.gmane.org, Shuah Khan , linux-api-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 5 Jul 2017 11:08:48 -0400 Carlos O'Donell wrote: > On 07/05/2017 10:33 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > No test should be written for a single specific hardware. It should be a > > general functionality that different hardware can execute. > > Why? We test all sorts of hardware in userspace and we see value in that > testing. > One reason is for bit rot. I'm not totally against it. But I envision that if we have hundreds of tests for very specific pieces of hardware, it's value will diminish over time. Unless we can get a good infrastructure written where the hardware info is more of a data sheet then a single test itself. -- Steve