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From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 15:36:40 -0700
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On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jul 2015 23:17:26 +0300
> James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> wrote:
>
>
>> > I've been trying to get time to test against -next before the merge
>> > window opens, because my tests usually discover these there. But I
>> > don't always have time to do so.
>>
>> Well, the more, the merrier.  If you have a suite of tests, just package
>> it up and send it off to Fengguang if you don't have time to run it.
>
> A lot of my tests are big time hacks. When I get time, I start to
> convert them over to the ftrace selftests. Some have already been
> converted. Some of those tests wont go because they take up too much
> time, and the selftests are suppose to be rather quick.
>
> Perhaps we should talk at KS about what to do with tests that are not
> suitable for selftests but would be nice for others to run. Should we
> have a selftests section for "this may take a while to finish"?

I think we should, and I think we should move a bunch of existing
tests there.  I want to run quick smoke tests when I'm programming,
and kselftests is slow right now.

--Andy