Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932956AbXIAWws (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 18:52:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751686AbXIAWwl (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 18:52:41 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.188]:57719 "EHLO rv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751503AbXIAWwk (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 18:52:40 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Dcma9rWUOgNxrOdxMwahQm+izqcj9qQxFOQrK0NBVY9yVqx9my5wiGh7WvMrdxKY5xPxVNKw7YjNPyzxSg4CVM7yAM6ESYbMEypZCgG9bxYIAx1ljfOJQScyR1CPc6gTLE9TmemquhcJkwCK0ZQidMI2kA8awLaUTy8pxQVyzTY= Message-ID: <8bd0f97a0709011552u687bcdc7i3a9154b24523796d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 18:52:39 -0400 From: "Mike Frysinger" To: "Robin Getz" Subject: Re: the Linux kernel, testsuites, and maybe *you* Cc: "Linux Kernel" , mbligh@mbligh.org In-Reply-To: <200709010214.11128.rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <8bd0f97a0708311422u309ff09cs24dfe64ff535a982@mail.gmail.com> <200709010214.11128.rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1725 Lines: 36 On 9/1/07, Robin Getz 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 majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/