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From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>,
	video4linux-list@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-27 18:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ 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
2008-05-23 13:56 ` Jonathan Corbet
2008-05-23 15:39   ` Alan Cox
2008-05-23 16:09     ` Jonathan Corbet
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
2008-05-27 15:41           ` Jonathan Corbet
2008-05-27 16:31             ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-27 16:37               ` Jonathan Corbet
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  8:34                             ` Alan Cox
2008-05-28  6:13                           ` Hans Verkuil
2008-05-27 19:50                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-27 20:24                     ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-05-27 18:14               ` Alan Cox [this message]

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