On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 12:48:38PM -0600, jim.cromie@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 9:28 AM Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello, there are lots of drivers in linux.
My questions are:
- how can we test driver? is it just using that device for a long time as a user?
testing is hard. Having the device is highly recommended. ISTM essential if adding a Tested-by: tag Do you have a particular device in mind ?
I recently was tracking syzbot report that is occured in sound driver. I don't have the device, but was curious about what the test method is.
You could reply to that report email, with your patch included. 0day/lkp robot watches many email lists, and might test your patch automatically, for you on different architectures
at least Ive seen it happening on kbuild, kbuild-all lists
well, build tests are useful but it is not enough, we should run the code on actual device. is it possible to make the bot test the device (which I don't have) even if there is no syzbot reproducer? I think I need to learn about bots more.. Thanks, Hyeongogn Yoo