Re: Hotplug Test Cases or Test Procedures

["Rusty Lynch" <rusty@linux.co.intel.com>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg KH" <greg@kroah.com>
To: "Rusty Lynch" <rusty@linux.co.intel.com>
Cc: <Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 6:47 PM
Subject: Re: Hotplug Test Cases or Test Procedures


> On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 06:10:29PM -0800, Rusty Lynch wrote:
> > I have a couple of people that have been tasked to start testing the
> > CompactPCI hotplug implementation for a couple of platforms, and was
> > wondering if there was an existing test case or test procedure
> > repository for the hotplug project.
> 
> Yeah, testers!  :)
> 
> No, there aren't any published test procedures that I know of.  I know a
> number of different companies have some private ones that they have used
> to test their specific drivers, but so far, I have not been able to
> convince anyone of them to make them public.
> 
> > From poking around the web site I didn't stumble across anything, but
> > it wouldn't be the first time I missed the obvious.
> 
> Um, don't confuse the linux-hotplug project with the PCI hotplug
> project.  They are two different things (but the PCI hotplug code relies
> on the linux-hotplug userspace code to load any needed modules, so they
> are intertwined a bit).
> 

Yeap, I'm mixing up the projects.  Although I'm betting that the test
procedures will end up covering both.

> > If there is no such thing, where would people like to see such
> > contributions?  At the very least, this would consist of a few text
> > documents that detailed step by step manual procedures for a tester to
> > validate the latest bits on some platform.
> 
> That would be great, I would love to have this for my use alone in
> testing new code out.
> 
> > Would this be something people would like to see in the hotplug CVS
> > repository?
> 
> Um, maybe in the pci hotplug cvs repository, if you really want to use
> CVS.  Or we can just put it up on the web site.

Writing the procedures as html and making them accessable via the web site
sounds like a good way to start.

> 
> > Maybe I could approach the LTP?
> 
> Traditionally they have only wanted tests that they can automate, and
> unfortunately, pci hotplug tests (and most driver tests) can't be
> automated very easily.  But it can't hurt to try asking them :)

I'll ping the LTP people to see if they are interested, but that shouldn't
slow us down any.

> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
> 
> 
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