From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Craig Thomas Subject: Re: Fw: Network driver test suite? Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:32:34 -0800 Message-ID: <1105493554.28674.49.camel@bullpen.pdx.osdl.net> References: <20050105152635.290ad9c0@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: dhollis@davehollis.com, cliffw@osdl.org, shemminger@osdl.org Return-path: To: netdev@oss.sgi.com In-Reply-To: <20050105152635.290ad9c0@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 15:26, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > Begin forwarded message: > > Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 15:19:46 -0500 > From: David Hollis > To: Netdev > Subject: Network driver test suite? > > > Is there any kind of test suite (automated or list of tests) available > for testing Linux network drivers? I'm completing the addition of a few > new USB ethernet devices and would like to able to test all possible > scenarios instead of coming across them piece-meal in the future. I'm > not a big fan of the "works on my box" testing that I'm doing now. I'm > sure there are all kinds of things that I'm not testing that aren't > everyday types of things such as VLANs, multicasting, various > ethtool/mii-tool things, large packets, etc. Would there be a desire for someone to collect the tests or at least create an index to all their locations? If so, then developers can scan a library of potential tests to run against newly developed code. OSDL can start incorporating some of these tests into their test platform as well. > > If there isn't anything like this, maybe it would be a useful thing to > develop? At a minimum, maybe to set the treshhold for minimum features > that drivers support and the like.