Re: [lhcs-devel] [PATCH] CPU & MEMORY Hotplug test cases for LTP

[Subrata M. <su...@li...>]

Hi All,

We plan to integrate and use the Memory Hotplug testcases inside LTP
(http://ltp.sourceforge.net/). We found these test cases from
http://devresources.linux-foundation.org/dev/hotplug/tests/. We now have
few issues:

1) Are all the tests inside memtoy-0.3d.tar.gz released under GPL? as we
do not see the GPL definition in all of those sources. Moreover there is
no COPYING file at the top level which says that these test cases can be
used under GPL.

2) There seems to be less documentation inside the same. Can anyone
point us to proper place where we can find them.

I tried to mail to some ids, got delivery failure. We are looking
forward for some pointers.

Regards--
Subrata

On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 16:36 +0200, Louis Rilling wrote:
> Subrata Modak a écrit :
> > On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 15:40 +0200, Louis Rilling wrote:
> >> Subrata Modak a écrit :
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I found the CPU and Memory Hotplug (very important kernel features) test
> >>> cases at http://devresources.linux-foundation.org/dev/hotplug/, which
> >>> can be used under GPL. I thought of integrating the same inside LTP as
> >>> these can be very valuable in your regular testing work.
> >>> 	
> >>> Presently i propose them to be integrated, but run independently, until
> >>> some of you share your experience in using them and integrating them
> >>> with default LTP run. I would like to know if it will be real beneficial
> >>> to have these test cases inside LTP. The Patch proposes the way i want
> >>> them to be in LTP.
> >> Hi Subrata,
> >>
> >> As far as Kerlabs is concerned, we expect these tests to become
> >> beneficial in a near future. We are ok with your proposal. We would just
> >> like the memory hotplug tests to be a bit more documented, for instance
> >> as well documented as the first cpu hotplug tests in your patch.
> > 
> > That´s true. But since these test cases are obtained from a third
> > source, documentation can be produced only when some of us has used them
> > over time and has known it´s nature well. May be some of us will be able
> > to do it in future after considerable hit-and-trial use. Meanwhile i
> > will always be watching activities in these test cases mailing list. Any
> > updates from their side will be immediately reflected in ltp. Please
> > update results of their runs with us in the mailing list, we can also
> > improve documentation in the run.
> 
> I was thinking of suggesting to the developers of these tests to improve
> their documentation. Of course, if they do not maintain these tests
> anymore, it's up to interested parties to do this documentation work...
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Louis
>