Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/2] net: ipa: fix IPA validation

[Alex Elder]

On 3/22/21 5:56 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > The solution is to create a user space tool inside the
> > drivers/net/ipa directory that will link with the kernel
> > source files and will perform all the basic one-time checks
> > I want to make.
>
> Hi Alex
>
> Have you found any other driver doing this?  Where do they keep there
> code?
>
> Could this be a selftest, put somewhere in tools/testing/selftests.
>
> Or can this be a test kernel module. Eg. we have crypt/testmsg.c which
> runs a number of tests on the crypto subsystem,
> ./kernel/time/test_udelay.c which runs times on udelay.
>
> Rather than inventing something new, please follow other examples
> already in the kernel.

I will.  I did see the tools/testing directory and I'll
look at how people have done things there.

I need to try to get it working first, then I'll figure
out where it belongs.  I think I'll be able to do a user
space test, but it's a little tricky to be sure it's
actually testing what I want.  If that ends up being
too hard, I'll look into kernel test module.

Thanks for the suggestions.

					-Alex

>         Andrew