Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:27:03 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [patch] scsi: fix crash in gdth_timeout() |
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* Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> wrote:
> > Honestly, the driver is probably rarely run by people that lack the > > hardware, I bet... > > It was all "flight by instruments only". I called for HW testers and > none came forward. All these changes, apart from "successful downgrade > to messy" where also needed in order to push important changes to > scsi. > > But a little bird said that QEMU might simulate this HW. SO I guess it > is QEMU time for me.
heh. Incidentally i was thinking about using KVM for automated testing. Important pieces of hardware should get an in-KVM simulator/emulator, that way developers who do not own that hardware can do functionality testing too. So basically the highest-quality drivers would have an "inverse driver" in KVM, which simulates the hardware. (that model is evidently useful to the hardware maker even for new hardware: it can then also be used to test the Linux compatibility and Linux performance of future planned releases of the hardware, etc.)
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