Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:13:24 +0100 | From | Simon Kagstrom <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Provide ways of crashing the kernel through debugfs |
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On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:38:02 +0200 Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 10:53 +0800, Américo Wang wrote: > > > Well, it provides a few more ways of crashing the kernel. That's > > > basically the only additional feature you'll get. > > > > Yeah, I can see that, but why do I need to care how I crash the kernel > > as long as I can crash it in a way. > > But Simon did explain in his first e-mail why he cares. You or others > might care for similar reasons.
Another argument for the patch is that it's simple and well-contained, it doesn't touch any other code apart from the driver itself.
It is also easy to extend with other tests, e.g., provoking kernel hangs to test watchdogs and so on.
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