make test drill

[Steven Edwards]

On 10/10/07, Steven Edwards <winehacker at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/10/07, H. Verbeet <hverbeet at gmail.com> wrote:
> > At that point the only real option is keeping a list of blacklisted
> > video drivers (which some applications actually sort of do), but I'm
> > not sure we really want to go there. I do think we should investigate
> > native failures, and fix them if possible, but if tests fail because
> > eg. vmware has a broken d3d implementation, I think the test is
> > essentially doing what it should do.
>
> Conversely couldn't you write a test that detects known good
> drivers via the loaded kernel module and make the test dependent
> on their presence? Rather than running the test and not knowing
> if it will pass or fail, it makes more since to only run the test when
> we know it SHOULD pass and then if it fails we have identified
> a regression.

Just to be clear, what I mean is a whitelist rather than a blacklist.
I am not sure if it would really work in practice as much as the
vendors update the drivers but it provides a stable reference point
with which to work from. The overall goal being stability when
seeking to identify what is really a regression. It seems obvious some
sort of detection will have to be done or else we will never have a
stable framework.

-- 
Steven Edwards

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