Automated testing of LKML patches with Clang

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One Line Summary

It's useful to have bots automatically test proposed patches and notify authors when they
fail to compile in certain configurations. Currently for Clang, a few folks interested in supporting it email
authors when patches break things, but regression finding is currently not automated for Clang. I'd like to
pick some brains as to what is a smart way to automatically test proposed patches for a seemingly limitless
number of kernel configurations.

Abstract

It’s useful to have bots automatically test proposed patches and notify authors when they
fail to compile in certain configurations. Currently for Clang, a few folks interested in supporting it email
authors when patches break things, but regression finding is currently not automated for Clang. I’d like to
pick some brains as to what is a smart way to automatically test proposed patches for a seemingly limitless
number of kernel configurations.

Speaker

  • Nick

    Biography

    Nick Desaulniers is a software engineer at Google working on the next generation of Nexus devices. Nick previously worked at Mozilla.

    Contributing to Open Source software and an accessible Internet for all are some of the things that Nick is most passionate about.