[LTP] [RFC PATCH] API: Allow testing of kernel features in development

[Petr Vorel]

Hi Jan, all,

> > ....
> > > +++ b/runtest/syscalls-unstable
> > How about having name syscalls-next? Although there can be tests which are from
> > some kernel maintainer tree (it does not have to be limited to next tree),
> > unstable can mean "tests which aren't fixed yet and thus buggy".

> staging?
IMHO better than unstable, just staging is in kernel for not yet ready drivers
which need to cleanup, thus it could be confusing similar way as unstable.

But this should be ok, we document the purpose.

> IMO separate runtest would be enough, any notes why and how test was developed
> could be in comments in code, where people can find it (less metadata
> to maintain),
> and those comments could stay there after feature is accepted to
> mainline, we just
> move test between runtest files.

+1, actually the simplest solution.

Kind regards,
Petr