Re: [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL
[Posted May 28, 2008 by corbet]
| From: |
| Alan Cox <alan-AT-redhat.com> |
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| Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab-AT-infradead.org> |
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| Re: [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL |
| Date: |
| Tue, 27 May 2008 14:14:47 -0400 |
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| <20080527181447.GB17790@devserv.devel.redhat.com> |
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| Alan Cox <alan-AT-redhat.com>, video4linux-list-AT-redhat.com,
linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox <alan-AT-lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet-AT-lwn.net> |
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On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 01:31:00PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> It is safer to have a tool to test and stress the driver before going to
> production.
Stress testing is rarely useful here - things like ioctl races you find by
thinking evil thoughts. Stress tests that fail obviously help find some stuff
but its error cases and hotplug corner cases that are usually the most foul
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