Thanks for your expedient answer!
So, I was discussing an alternative to mocking; function hooking. But in a benign way. Is there any way to, at runtime replace the functionality of code in order that you specify what it does for any given kernel function?
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 3:24 PM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Not really, sorry. Running in the kernel means you don't have much roomOn Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 02:51:25PM -0500, Kenneth Adam Miller wrote:
> So, in userland development, the idea of mocking is used to isolate context
> management and machine configuration into a single class or set of functions
> that can be reused, and also facilitate testing much easier. Google mock is a
> great example.
>
> Say I develop a kernel module, and I want that module to have some result X
> after some returned result, whatever that might be. Is there anything similar
> for kernel code?
for "simulation". But you can use qemu, or other virtual machines and a
debugger to test your code if you really want to.
Good luck!
greg k-h
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