Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] & [TECH TOPIC] Improve regression tracking

On Wed, 5 Jul 2017 11:08:48 -0400
Carlos O'Donell [off-list ref] wrote:

On 07/05/2017 10:33 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote:

quoted

No test should be written for a single specific hardware. It should be a
general functionality that different hardware can execute.  

Why? We test all sorts of hardware in userspace and we see value in that
testing.

One reason is for bit rot. I'm not totally against it. But I envision
that if we have hundreds of tests for very specific pieces of hardware,
it's value will diminish over time. Unless we can get a good
infrastructure written where the hardware info is more of a data sheet
then a single test itself.

-- Steve