Linked Questions

I have heard about tools like sonarsource which help in maintaining the code quality and test coverage. Why is not linux kernel development use such tools to make the work easier ?. It would be great ...

What are the most common and why are uncommon methods and tools used not to do live debugging on the Linux kernel? I know that Linus, for example, is against this kind of debugging for the Linux ...

I am doing a project in linux kernel and I wanted to know what does this checkstack.pl do? I have never studied perl so cant understand the program. It will be great if I could understand the program ...

I'm interested in mocking functions and global variables in order to unit test a kernel module. Initially tried with https://github.com/ThrowTheSwitch/CMock but ran into issues. Any articles links on ...

If so what technique should I use ? I am thinking about using hippomock as they can be used to mock "C" methods. Are there any better approaches ? If so can anyone give an advice, or do you think unit ...

How do we test the modules and drivers(like USB,I2C,HDMI etc..) of a Linux kernel running in a target board? is there any tools/frameworks doing the job? i found this thread.Can anyone suggest me the ...

I was wondering how the Linux kernel sources are tested before official release. I am aware of the question over here, but I am looking for a very specific answer to the questions, how the kernel is ...

So I've edited SLOB to use the best-fit algorithm, both when finding a suitable page and a suitable block. But the question is, how do I test it? Should I just write user-level code that does malloc ...

I am compiling a linux kernel using mipsel toolchain. Everything works fine except at the very last point which states invalid entry point: sh: 0: Can't open /arch/mips/boot/tools/entry rm -f arch/...

Is there any Compatibility Test Suite for linux kernel like we have for Android Operating system. e.g. like when we make changes to the kernel , adding static modules, adding our own programs,...