One of the things I really miss in the open source kernel world (coming from the commercial world) is the lack of test packages that everyone automatically runs, just in case they broke something. FreeBSD had nothing, AFAICT, with occassional painful results.
Does the linux kernel have any kind of regression test package? If so, where can I find it? If not, does anyone know of ongoing attempts to create one?
A quick web search gave me a few pointers to attempts at this:
pdf about a regression test framework: https://www.kernel.org/doc/ols/2007/ols2007v2-pages-285-296.pdf
A project called crackerjack: http://sourceforge.net/projects/crackerjack/
A paper from a 2008 linux symposium:
http://ols.fedoraproject.org/OLS/Reprints-2008/babulal-reprint.pdf
That 2008 paper points to the LTP suite whose website implies they produced a May 2013 stable, so it's definitely ongoing. Here's the how to: http://ltp.sourceforge.net/documentation/how-to/ltp.php#_3