Re: Device Driver testing - Please CC the reply to my email address

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On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 03:36:02PM -0800, Arun Srinivasan wrote:
> I am new to device drivers. I have had a glance at Linux device drivers
> book, but it talks about writing drivers only. What I need is what are the
> issues I need to look into apart from just testing to see if the driver
> works. How do I go about finding bugs?

Why do you need to do this?  If everything works just fine for you, then
what bugs are there for you to find?  :)

> I have a set of drivers for a number of devices as serial, USB,
> touchpad,audio etc. developed by someone else. So what kind of tests should
> I do to find all possible bugs. Are there any books on device driver
> testing?

Do you have a pointer to these drivers?  Are they part of the main linux
kernel tree?

thanks,

greg k-h

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