New Tool to Track Kernel Testing Time

mu22le writes "Andrea Arcangeli has created a new tool, 'klive', to automatically track the amount of testing that each kernel gets before release. According to Kernel Traffic "There was some discussion [on making it a kernel config option] that public perception might put this in the "spyware" category", but still the ability to track a kernel usage and reliability would be valuable to both developers and users."

Comments

Once again Linux enters QA 101

[mrkitty]

It amazes me that such a widely used product takes 10 years to implement Quality Assurance 101. I can hear the headlines now

"Linux Kernel team introduces Requirement to defect tracking".