[LTP] [PATCH] Create policy for testing unstable kernel features

[Jan Stancek]

On Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 11:18 AM Richard Palethorpe via ltp
<ltp@lists.linux.it> wrote:
>
> It's not clear if anything more than this is required for now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <rpalethorpe@suse.com>

Acked-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>

> ---
>
>  doc/test-writing-guidelines.txt | 10 ++++++++++
>  runtest/staging                 |  1 +
>  2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 runtest/staging
>
> diff --git a/doc/test-writing-guidelines.txt b/doc/test-writing-guidelines.txt
> index 1fa751ed5..8ca014d45 100644
> --- a/doc/test-writing-guidelines.txt
> +++ b/doc/test-writing-guidelines.txt
> @@ -334,3 +334,13 @@ It's easier to maintain a '.gitignore' file per directory with tests, rather
>  than having single file in the project root directory. This way, we don't have
>  to update all the gitignore files when moving directories, and they get deleted
>  automatically when a directory with tests is removed.
> +
> +7 Testing pre-release kernel features
> +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> +
> +Tests for features not yet in a mainline kernel release are accepted. However
> +they must only be added to the +staging+ runtest file. Once a feature is part
> +of the stable kernel ABI the associated test must be moved out of staging.
> +
> +This is primarily to help test kernel RCs by avoiding the need to download
> +separate LTP patchsets.
> diff --git a/runtest/staging b/runtest/staging
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000..ef1cdea15
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/runtest/staging
> @@ -0,0 +1 @@
> +# Tests for features that are not yet in the stable kernel ABI
> --
> 2.34.1
>
>
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