On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 05:24:04PM +0100, Brian Witte wrote: > What other testing do you recommend for a "new driver" besides testing > "builds" as mentioned in docs [1] here in 'Adding new driver'? Whatever this ends up being: > I am working on test/automation for our new backports workflow so any > insight you have would be helpful. If you decide to give kdevops a shot to allow folks to test wifi devices easily I'm happy to give any tips / advice. PCIe passthrough is supported through 'make dynconfig' so you could end up using that so to not crash a host. We're using that to test new block devices with new filesystem developments. The only issue we've run into when doing this is when a PCI device resets the sysfs file changes on the host so PCI passthrough stops, working around this manually is documented here: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZQIRh+fpU1sR8BTN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#u How we fix this upstream for pcie passthrough remains unclear yet. For wifi devices I am not sure what sort of things triggers full PCI device resets, perhaps firmware crashes? Luis
