On Wed, 5 Jul 2017 11:08:48 -0400 Carlos O'Donell <carlos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 07/05/2017 10:33 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > No test should be written for a single specific hardware. It should be a > > general functionality that different hardware can execute. > > Why? We test all sorts of hardware in userspace and we see value in that > testing. > One reason is for bit rot. I'm not totally against it. But I envision that if we have hundreds of tests for very specific pieces of hardware, it's value will diminish over time. Unless we can get a good infrastructure written where the hardware info is more of a data sheet then a single test itself. -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
