Hello Juan, 2008/5/21 Juan Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Are the tests in devinst.c supposed so be run in order? IOW are they >> supposed to bee cleaned up after each subtest or do they rely on each other? > > I'm sure I didn't put that much thought into making the tests order > dependent. I wrote them, ran them, made them into tests, and they > worked at least once for me. I might not have tested running them > subsequent times on the same machine. > > I don't think it's a general problem with the devinst.c tests. There > are two problems with them: > 1. Some of the last error checks fail on some versions of Windows. I > only have Windows XP, so I couldn't have anticipated these. James is > doing a nice job of cleaning them up (thanks James.) > 2. The call to SetupDiRegisterDeviceInfo leaves keys around that are > hard to delete, and cause subsequent runs of the test to fail. > > In my opinion it's probably okay to remove the > SetupDiRegisterDeviceInfo tests. I don't know any apps that call this > API directly. My ipod patches (if they ever make it in) use them to register the ipod device.
Cheers, Maarten.
