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


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