linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] notifier error injection

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Message-ID: <CAC5umyjaUPTJpLcTSgRxyu+cPn7p1hAMJW_OxH9ZC3CBRc0nEA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 2 Aug 2011 18:23:12 +0900
From:	Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] notifier error injection

2011/8/2 Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>:

> Aside from that, I didn't find any bugs but I still think this feature is
> useful for testing and it just add a little complexity to exiting code.
> (Maybe I need to prove it by finding more bugs)

As for the complexity, I can minimize it by moving the common functions
to lib/notifier-error-inject.c and lib/notifier-error-inject.h.
It is cleaner than adding them to kernel/notifier.c and
include/linux/notifier.h with #ifdef CONFIG_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION
as v3 patch set does.
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