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From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 21:49:16 -0700
Subject: tools to identify bugs in driver
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On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:04:04AM +0530, Amit Nagal wrote:
> Hi ,
> 
> What are the mandatory tools that must be run to identify potential
> bugs ( say memory , locking etc )
> in a linux device driver ?

Turn lockdep and the kernel memory leak detector and run your driver and
see what happens.

Have you tried that?

thanks,

greg k-h