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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0710151312500.6887@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:15:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@...asas.com>,
Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...elEye.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] scsi: fix crash in gdth_timeout()
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> For some things. I do it a bit because you can use it to fake
> failures that are tricky to do in the real world. It won't tell you the
> driver works but its suprisingly good for testing for races (forcing IRQ
> delivery at specific points), buggy hardware you don't posess, and things
> like media failures and timeouts your real hardware refuses to do.
Heh. I do agree that you likely find bugs, even if quite often it's
exactly because the behaviour is something that will never happen on real
hardware.
But failure testing is very useful - I forget who it was who debugged some
driver by taking a CD and just scrathing it mercilessly to induce read
errors ;)
Having a really *bad* HW emulator can certainly work that way too, even if
it also would probably end up hitting just a few of the potential error
paths..
Linus
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