Kernel Mocking

[Greg KH]

On 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? 

Not really, sorry.  Running in the kernel means you don't have much room
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