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Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 15:23:05 +0200
From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
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To: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux Hardened Device Drivers Project
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Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de> wrote:
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> I fully support the idea to audit the Linux device drivers - using guidelines,
> hardware fault injection, stress testing etc - and fixing any potential bugs.
> This is obviously a very important task, because the drivers are some of the
> most ugly code I've seen in the kernel.
> 

Are there any recipies for stress testing drivers?
I have my own list of stress tests I run on my network drivers, but the 
list is more or less random:

http://www.colorfullife.com/~manfred/net-stress/net-stresstest.txt

--
	Manfred

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