Re: [ndctl PATCH] test/cxl-destroy-region.sh: create RAM regions explicitly

[Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>]

On Thu, Nov 05, 2026 at 05:48:46PM -0800, Alison Schofield wrote:
> The test creates regions it expects to be RAM without passing a type.
> create-region defaults to pmem when the root decoder supports both RAM
> and PMEM, so the test fails when it picks such a decoder.
> 
> cxl_test has one such decoder. Whether the test picks it depends on the
> memdev order, which changes when other CXL devices, such as QEMU-emulated
> ones, are present.
> 
> Use the '-t ram' option so both checks create RAM regions regardless of
> which decoder is selected.
> 
> This issue appeared while the CXL kernel patch[1] was being tested. It
> changes the cxl_test created x1 volatile window to one that support both
> RAM and PMEM.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cxl/89e8d2cfde4f1054f37a4f48f2b206a7f05108f7.1793850480.git.alison.schofield@intel.com/
> 
> 
> Reported-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>

Applied 
https://github.com/pmem/ndctl/tree/pending