On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 02:51 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Thursday 12 March 2009 02:06:48 Subrata Modak wrote: > > These seems to be testing the module management tools. Is there any > > feasibility of these tests being made part of ltp/testcases/commands > > directory ? > > there is no official spec for the utilities to load modules. whatever module- > init-tools supports, that is the "spec". as such, i dont think it makes > sense > to attempt to integrate into ltp. otherwise we waste time attempting to keep > two distinct and unrelated trees in sync with each other and having ltp try > and support a myriad of module-init-tools versions. my head hurts thinking > about it. the testsuites here validate the *module-init-tools interface*, > not > the *linux module syscall interface*. > > in fact, i dont think any of the module-init-tools tests use any kernel > related function (i.e. they dont actually poke the kernel). this would make > sense to develop in ltp: functions that actually tested the module related
True. We will need this. I do not see anything of that sort under testcases/kernel/syscalls/. Regards-- Subrata > syscalls. the ABI there is static and part of the kernel. then we can even > do things like try and crash the kernel with bad arguments/modules/etc... if > running `make check` in module-init-tools crashed my kernel, i'd be seriously > pissed. if ltp did it, i'd be happy because ltp is doing its job. > -mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ Ltp-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltp-list
