On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Che-Liang Chiou <clchiou@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The serio_raw driver is designed to provide "raw access" to mice, keyboards > etc; thus, a driver accessing serio_raw may live entirely in userland. > > However, serio_raw lacks testability. It is practically impossible to do > regression tests on changes to a serio_raw -based userland driver. On the other > hand, the kernel's input subsystem has good testability support. With the help > of tools like utouch-evemu, we may capture and replay input events for evdev > drivers in regression tests. > > This patchset contains extensions to the serio_raw driver which add debugfs > entries for monitoring and replaying byte sequence between a userland driver > and device. These byte sequences can be used in regression tests of the > userland driver. This patchset closes the gap between serio_raw and the input > subsystem regarding testability. > > This patchset is successfully applied on kernel version 3.3-rc2. > > Che-Liang Chiou (5): > Input: serio_raw - return proper result when serio_raw_read fails > Input: serio_raw - extract queue interface > Input: serio_raw - factor out common pattern of write > Input: serio_raw - add debugfs interface > Input: serio_raw - implement debugfs interface For patches 3-5: Reviewed-by: Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@xxxxxxxxxx> For patch 1 (and its implication on queue_read() in patch 2, I'd prefer to hear feedback from the list. -Daniel > > drivers/input/serio/serio_raw.c | 394 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ > 1 files changed, 337 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-) > > -- > 1.7.7.3 > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Daniel Kurtz | Software Engineer | djkurtz@xxxxxxxxxx | 650.204.0722 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
