tools to identify bugs in driver

[Daniel Baluta]

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7:34 AM, Amit Nagal <helloin.amit at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi ,
>
> What are the mandatory tools that must be run to identify potential
> bugs ( say memory , locking etc )
> in a linux device driver ?

Turning on DEBUG_SLAB might be a good option.
Have a look for all available options under make menuconfig's
Kernel Hacking section.

thanks,
Daniel.