From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>,
video4linux-list@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 14:14:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080527181447.GB17790@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080527133100.6a9302fb@gaivota>
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-27 18:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-22 21:37 [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL Alan Cox
2008-05-23 2:08 ` Andy Walls
2008-05-23 6:16 ` Hans Verkuil
2008-05-23 6:28 ` Hans Verkuil
2008-05-26 16:39 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-23 9:09 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-26 16:34 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-26 16:46 ` Hans Verkuil
2008-05-26 21:14 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-06-01 2:34 ` [PATCH] cx18: convert driver to video_ioctl2() (Re: [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL) Andy Walls
2008-06-01 10:15 ` Hans Verkuil
2008-06-01 19:01 ` Andy Walls
2008-06-03 21:20 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-06-03 22:08 ` [ivtv-devel] " Alan Cox
2008-06-04 0:44 ` Andy Walls
2008-06-04 10:02 ` Alan Cox
[not found] ` <9027.1211551014@vena.lwn.net>
2008-05-23 15:39 ` [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL Alan Cox
[not found] ` <15168.1211558968@vena.lwn.net>
2008-05-23 18:58 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-23 19:05 ` Hans Verkuil
2008-05-25 23:46 ` Mike Isely
2008-05-26 16:59 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-26 20:23 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-26 21:10 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-26 22:01 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-27 13:10 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
[not found] ` <20080527094144.1189826a@bike.lwn.net>
2008-05-27 16:31 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-27 18:14 ` Alan Cox [this message]
[not found] ` <20080527103755.1fd67ec1@bike.lwn.net>
2008-05-27 18:59 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-27 19:26 ` Devin Heitmueller
2008-05-27 21:00 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-27 21:22 ` Devin Heitmueller
2008-05-27 23:48 ` Andy Walls
2008-05-28 0:46 ` Devin Heitmueller
2008-05-28 2:37 ` Andy Walls
2008-05-28 2:47 ` Devin Heitmueller
2008-05-28 23:30 ` Andy Walls
2008-05-28 8:34 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-28 6:13 ` Hans Verkuil
[not found] ` <20080527125041.0fc28fd4@infradead.org>
2008-05-27 20:24 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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