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From: mail@beyermatthias.de (Matthias Beyer)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: How to test my patches before submitting them to LKML?
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 16:31:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140207153104.GW27070@fu.3gs> (raw)

Hi,

I'm currently working on some stylefix-patches for
drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c and I'm slowly getting to a point where they
seem to be ready. How to test my patches?

I know I should compile them at least, to be sure they build. But how
can I test if the code (still) works (the way it is expected to)?

Can I boot it in a VM to test it? If yes, how to (generally and
explicitly for my patches)? (There should be no difference if I try to
boot it with VirtualBox vs. KVM vs. Xen, right?)

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Kind regards,
Matthias Beyer

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             reply	other threads:[~2014-02-07 15:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-07 15:31 Matthias Beyer [this message]
2014-02-07 16:10 ` How to test my patches before submitting them to LKML? Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2014-02-07 17:30   ` Matthias Beyer
2014-02-07 18:30     ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2014-02-07 19:05       ` Robert P. J. Day
2014-02-07 20:51       ` Arlie Stephens
2014-02-07 23:46         ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu

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