On 9/1/07, Robin Getz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri 31 Aug 2007 17:22, Mike Frysinger pondered: > > is there any sort of standard for testing and integration into > > mainline ? in the Blackfin world, we've been developing little > > external kernel modules and adding them to our own testsuite, but > > often times these things are not Blackfin specific. case in point, > > we're integrating a string testsuite to make sure all of the fun str* > > and mem* functions are sane and operate as they expected, but rather > > than having just Blackfin benefit here, i'd like to see this pushed > > upstream ... > > I know there have been some discussions at past OLS about some testing that > Martin was working on. > > http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2006/view_abstract.php?content_key=13 > > But I think this was more functional tests, less unit tests that what you are > talking/asking about. > > http://test.kernel.org/functional/index.html > > Also - If I remember - most of the existing tests were for a self hosted > environment - and might not be well suited to embedded (like Blackfin) which > requires cross compile, and pretty thin runtime environment (uClibc + > busybox's msh as shell).
i flipped through the autotest code a bit but i dont think this can do what i'm looking for. it appears to be a mix of LTP provides and what we have for our Blackfin test infrastructure -- iow, all userspace stuff and no real way of exercising kernel internals. -mike - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/