Hi Ingo & Andrew, Since you both seem to be quite interested in the number of kernel testers and the reporting of bugs, I figured I would bounce this idea off of you...
As a part-time kernel tester, I find it interesting to see that Ingo has tools that are able to automatically configure/build/boot/test kernels, and it has given me the following ideas: - For people like me, it would be great if there were a downloadable collection of tools for performing similar testing on my box here whenever I'm not using it. - The tools could build a kernel, boot it, run some standard tests, and report any problems automatically. - The kernel oops web site and auto-submit tool seems like it would be a very good companion to the testing tools (if you don't already have them integrated). - In the future, I would expect that a [EMAIL PROTECTED] testing package could be integrated into distribution repositories so that users could do automatic testing (build testing for people scared about data loss, and boot testing as well for those not worried). I would be happy to help out with the work in developing this set of tools (as far as my limited skills allow), but I have a feeling that you already have most of it in some form. I think the final piece is just the integration and marketing so that the barrier to kernel testing gets lowered considerably. Does this seem like a reasonable idea, or is it something that you already had in mind (that it just took me longer to see)? -- Kevin Winchester -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
