Testing the ethernet driver

Hi,

I have written ethernet driver for the ethernet controller which is
embedded in SoC.
The BSP development and the driver development is going on hand in
hand. Obviously I can't use netperf / tcpdump as the console is not yet
up. I want to test the driver functionality without the support of
filesystem(ramdisk/NFS) for the reason mentioned above. I was able to
test uptil the registration of the device driver as well as the irq.
But wanted to check the transmit / receive / timeout / functionality.
Any suggestions to test the driver?
I now I can do it once the ramdisk is up. But wanted to have any method
to do without it.

Regards,
Sagar

Sagar wrote:

> I have written ethernet driver for the ethernet controller which is
> embedded in SoC.
> The BSP development and the driver development is going on hand in
> hand. Obviously I can't use netperf / tcpdump as the console is not yet
> up. I want to test the driver functionality without the support of
> filesystem(ramdisk/NFS) for the reason mentioned above. I was able to
> test uptil the registration of the device driver as well as the irq.
> But wanted to check the transmit / receive / timeout / functionality.
> Any suggestions to test the driver?

Might be netpoll api can help you. http://www.selenic.com/netpoll/