Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 16:23:05 -0800
From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: bunk@stusta.de, mark.fasheh@oracle.com, kurt.hackel@oracle.com,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] OCFS2: __init / __exit problem
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On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 22:51:17 +0100 Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> 
> > 
> > This is the common problem that such error paths are only used once 
> > every dozen years and therefore get no real testing coverage...
> 
> 
> Rusty presented some brilliant tool for this at OLS this year... I bet
> that could be used for filesystems as well (Rusty uses it for netfilter
> testing)

this year?

New drivers/filesystems should get treatment such as:

1.  build cleanly, no compile/link warnings
2.  check with sparse, eliminate its warnings
3.  use 'make checkstack buildcheck namespacecheck'
    and fix their problems

similar to what I recently did on the Areca/arcmsr driver
and on libata-acpi additions.

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~Randy
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