Kernel Device Driver Testing

2017-11-08 Thread tedheadster
Greg, I had an idea about device drivers and self-tests. Create a compiler tag called __selftest which would function similar to __init. A device driver author could write directly into their kernel module self-test functions identified with this tag. Using the tag, the person compiling the kern

Re: Thoughts on staging and on fixing up drivers?

2017-08-17 Thread tedheadster
> > Larry, you've migrated a bunch of staging code, and tried various > approaches. Do you have any lessons on what has worked and what hasn't > and if there is anything we can do to make the process better? I am also quite interested in such work. We asked for a Birds of Feather discussion at th