| "Randy.Dunlap" wrote:
| >
| > On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, John Levon wrote:
| >
| > | On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 10:32:08AM -0700, george anzinger wrote:
| > |
| > | > The 4th, 5th, and 6th parts are support code and not really
| > | > part of the kernel.
| > |
| > | So ...
| > |
| > | > This part contains man pages for the new system calls.
| > |
| > | ... why are they here ?
| > |
| > | http://freshmeat.net/projects/man-pages/
| >
| > I agree, please let's not clutter the kernel tree.
|
| Oh, I agree also. I don't think any of the high-res-timers
| support patches belong in the tree. For testing and
| verifying the system calls, however, it is nice to have
| them. It is easy to do the patch and then move the whole
| directory as this is the only thing in it.
|
| I might suggest, however, that we should have a regression
| test set for the kernel "somewhere". Does such a thing
| exist? I haven't seen it, but then I have yet to see a
| great number of things ;)
I believe that IBM's LTP project does regression testing on
2.5.x kernels. That's more for things like compile/build and
syscall correctness IIRC. Not so much as performance (regression)
testing.
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