* How to test my patches for the (staging) android driver?
[not found] ` <20131203155708.GD2264@fu>
@ 2013-12-04 15:08 ` Matthias Beyer
2013-12-04 15:17 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
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From: Matthias Beyer @ 2013-12-04 15:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: kernelnewbies
Hi kernelnewbies!
As I do not get any answer from the other MLs, this goes here, too.
Maybe there is just too much noise in lkml... never mind!
On 03-12-2013 16:57:08, Matthias Beyer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Greg-KHs email bot tells me to send this message to a ML. It suggests
> to send it to this list or kernelnewbies at nl.linux.org, but the latter
> results in a failure notice. So I send this email to this list.
>
> On 03-12-2013 16:16:42, Matthias Beyer wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > First: I'm really new to the kernel in manner of submitting patches,
> > testing etc. Please, if you send me guidelines or pointers on
> > what to do, explain how to do things!
> >
> > I'm working on some cleanup patches for code in drivers/staging/android/.
> > These patches are cleanup patches as suggested in the appropriate TODO
> > file, including fixes for checkpatch, but also function splitting as
> > there are some really long functions (mainly in binder.c).
> >
> > How to test my code beside compiling it? Do I even have a possibility
> > to test it or should I just send it to you?
> >
> > Besides: Which ML should I post this (and the patches) to? Main Kernel
> > ML?
> >
>
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Mit freundlichen Gr??en,
Kind regards,
Matthias Beyer
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* How to test my patches for the (staging) android driver?
2013-12-04 15:08 ` How to test my patches for the (staging) android driver? Matthias Beyer
@ 2013-12-04 15:17 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2013-12-04 18:53 ` Matthias Beyer
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu @ 2013-12-04 15:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: kernelnewbies
On Wed, 04 Dec 2013 16:08:52 +0100, Matthias Beyer said:
> > > How to test my code beside compiling it? Do I even have a possibility
> > > to test it or should I just send it to you?
If at all possible, you should cross-compile for an appropriate architecture
and actually boot and test the code in question. There's lots of ways
to write code in C that compiles cleanly, looks correct, but is subtly
wrong for some reason.
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* How to test my patches for the (staging) android driver?
2013-12-04 15:17 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
@ 2013-12-04 18:53 ` Matthias Beyer
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From: Matthias Beyer @ 2013-12-04 18:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: kernelnewbies
On 04-12-2013 10:17:23, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Dec 2013 16:08:52 +0100, Matthias Beyer said:
>
> > > > How to test my code beside compiling it? Do I even have a possibility
> > > > to test it or should I just send it to you?
>
> If at all possible, you should cross-compile for an appropriate architecture
> and actually boot and test the code in question. There's lots of ways
> to write code in C that compiles cleanly, looks correct, but is subtly
> wrong for some reason.
Thank you for your reply!
How to cross-compile and even more important: How to test? I
do not have devices for testing! Should I try it in a VM?
What I can do is checking if the object file is the same before and
after my stylefix patches. But I think this does not work for
functions I split up into several smaller ones...
--
Mit freundlichen Gr??en,
Kind regards,
Matthias Beyer
Proudly sent with mutt.
Happily signed with gnupg.
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