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

[Arun Srinivasan <arunlkml@xxxxxxxxx>]

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?
 
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?

On 1/25/06, Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 1/26/06, Arun Srinivasan <arunlkml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Can someone please guide me how do I test device drivers in linux? If you
> can please send me useful links/ materials on it it wud be very helpful.

How about :
   1. Build the driver.
   2. Load the driver.
   3. Try to use the device.
   4. See if it works.
??

This may be of interrest to you as well : http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/

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