From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu May 13 16:41:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.vnet.net (smtp2.vnet.net [166.82.1.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 040AE14EF3 for ; Thu, 13 May 1999 16:41:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rivers@dignus.com) Received: from dignus.com (ponds.vnet.net [166.82.177.48]) by smtp2.vnet.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA06759; Thu, 13 May 1999 19:42:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lakes.dignus.com (lakes.dignus.com [10.0.0.3]) by dignus.com (8.9.2/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA04478; Thu, 13 May 1999 19:41:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.dignus.com (8.9.2/8.6.9) id TAA44841; Thu, 13 May 1999 19:41:06 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 19:41:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199905132341.TAA44841@lakes.dignus.com> To: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, jesus.monroy@usa.net Subject: Re: BUDS Coming to you soon. In-Reply-To: <19990513231838.6626.qmail@nwcst067.netaddress.usa.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > o........ Deep Recursion Testing[1] I believe you mean Regression testing here. At least, the description you provided fits the definition of Regression testing. > o........ Permuntation Compilation of the GENERIC Kernel[2] Uh.. I believe you mean "Permutation", right? But, if you simply count the number of options, devices and controllers in the LINT config on 3.1 you get 313. Let's simplify this and pretend they are all either yes-or-no options. That makes for a *lot* (2 to the 313) of different kernels which will take quite some time to compile... (longer than your lifetime?) Perhaps a more realistic testing paradigm should be employed? Also, I suggest that -hackers isn't appropriate for this... - Dave Rivers - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message