For the three people in hiding from all the other mailing lists discussing this, ha! You can't escape. Apparently, a number of kernel developers and some IBMers (or maybe IBMers who are kernel developers, I'm not sure) have been working on a test suite for the Linux kernel that seems to test a bunch of kernel internals for errors and timings.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=111775021327595&w=2 The only filing system I saw was ReiserFS, but they seem to be testing a bunch of other stuff, don't seem to be putting up ALL the results, and also seem to be working on adding many more tests and are soliciting for help and suggestions. The problem, as I see it, is that there are now an awful lot of code validators, API conformance tests, benchmarking utilities, etc, but no real clear picture of what program does what, how the output of the different programs relate (if at all), what is of actual practical use to a developer, what is of actual practical interest to a user, and what this might all mean for the next Wallace and Grommit movie. This ties in with trying to persuade people to do talks, as it would give people (such as Linus) the chance to really let loose and rant about what they think is missing, rave about what new code they get to play with, and wax lyrical as futurologist. A thought for a future occasion - let's settle the issue of AMD vs. Intel once and for all, in the only speed test that really matters - at a go-kart track. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ PDXLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug IRC: irc.freenode.net #pdxlug
