Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux Hardened Device Drivers Project

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Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de> wrote:
>
> I fully support the idea to audit the Linux device drivers - using guidelines,
> hardware fault injection, stress testing etc - and fixing any potential bugs.
> This is obviously a very important task, because the drivers are some of the
> most ugly code I've seen in the kernel.
>

Are there any recipies for stress testing drivers?
I have my own list of stress tests I run on my network drivers, but the
list is more or less random:

http://www.colorfullife.com/~manfred/net-stress/net-stresstest.txt

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	Manfred
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