[Fault-injection-developer] [DISCUSSION] make decisions about ficl

[Zhuang, L. <lou...@in...>]

> * In case the chicken-and-egg analogy is not obvious across cultural
>   barriers...  it refers to the evolutionary question of which came 
In fact, chicken-and-egg is really across cluture, at least in China. ;->

According to ficl, we've some decisions to make. 
First, ficl for current FITH should still use FSML as input?
a. yes
b. no
Second, ficl should lock relevant drivers/modules automatically as before?
a. yes.
b. no

For second item, locking modules is a really mess which is not really
relative with fault injection itself. But it can protect system from
mis-operating (for example, tester always forgets remove PF trigger before
unload tested-driver. This will make kernel oops because iounmap finds some
MMIO page is not present.) But we can not find a clean way to lock module in
user space. Shall we investigate more on this? Or shall we talk with Russell
for this feature?

Any comments?



Yours truly,
Louis Zhuang
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