Re: the Linux kernel, testsuites, and maybe *you*

[Robin Getz <rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org>]

On Fri 31 Aug 2007 17:22, Mike Frysinger pondered:
> is there any sort of standard for testing and integration into
> mainline ?  in the Blackfin world, we've been developing little
> external kernel modules and adding them to our own testsuite, but
> often times these things are not Blackfin specific.  case in point,
> we're integrating a string testsuite to make sure all of the fun str*
> and mem* functions are sane and operate as they expected, but rather
> than having just Blackfin benefit here, i'd like to see this pushed
> upstream ...

I know there have been some discussions at past OLS about some testing that 
Martin was working on.

http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2006/view_abstract.php?content_key=13

But I think this was more functional tests, less unit tests that what you are 
talking/asking about.

http://test.kernel.org/functional/index.html

Also - If I remember - most of the existing tests were for a self hosted 
environment - and might not be well suited to embedded (like Blackfin) which 
requires cross compile, and pretty thin runtime environment (uClibc + 
busybox's msh as shell).

Martin?

-Robin
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