The Linux Foundation yummies

Bill McGonigle bill at bfccomputing.com
Tue Jan 30 15:11:42 EST 2007


On Jan 30, 2007, at 12:40, Thomas Charron wrote:

>  I'd love to see them also add a program where kernel devs could  
> evaluate a
> driver to make sure it works 'as it should'.

LTP:

   http://ltp.sourceforge.net/

may be what you're looking for.

It's very much dependent on having the appropriate hardware to run  
the test on, though.  I find this often means the end user (me) finds  
a kernel error, reports it, and somebody fixes it (on a sunny day).   
Props to Alan Cox for recently tracking down an ATI bug on my to-be- 
MythTV-box.

It would be nice if hardware vendors could further commit to having a  
test box at their facilities with one of each of their products in  
them, running LTP coverage.  Maybe that's the Silver Level badge, the  
Bronze going to supporting a driver developer as mentioned, and the  
Gold to doing your own drivers.

-Bill

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