Device categories for testing purposes

[Marc Tardif]

* Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com> [2011-11-24 09:51 +0000]:
> On 23/11/11 22:04, Marc Tardif wrote:
> > Your feedback would be much appreciated to come up with a list of
> > categories for testing the kernel over a minimal set of systems with
> > unique devices. For example, lets say I'm interested in testing audio
> > across many systems, I would like to be given the minimal set of systems
> > with unique devices having the PCI class/subclass:
> >
> >   Multimedia controller/Audio device, or
> >   Multimedia controller/Multimedia audio controller
> >
> > or having the USB class/subclass:
> >
> >   Audio/Control Device, or
> >   Audio/MIDI Streaming, or
> >   Audio/Streaming
> >
> > At this point, I'm only interested in coming up with a mapping of PCI
> > and USB device class/subclass to a list of testing categories that are
> > most likely to be relevant for testing purposes. The following table is a
> > first draft where we currently have the categories: modem, video, audio,
> > storage, capture, network, wireless, processor, video, bluetooth. The
> > category "x" is used to indicate it might not be relevant.
> 
> Does this include testing on-board USB3 controllers that appear on
> modern machines?

If this is of particular interest, we could add the "usb" testing category
for the following PCI device class/subclass:

> > Bus  Device Class/Subclass                           Testing Category
[snip]
> > pci  Serial bus controller/USB Controller                         usb

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