Re: [PATCH] block: fix 32 bit overflow in __blkdev_issue_discard()

Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-16T08:53:37Z

On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 12:46:58AM -0800, Omar Sandoval wrote:
> > > generic/349 [not run] scsi_debug module not found
> > > generic/350 [not run] scsi_debug module not found
> > > generic/351 [not run] scsi_debug module not found
> >
> > Same here, btw. Any test that requires modules is a rather bad idea.
>
> I'll plug my vm.py script that supports running a kernel build with
> modules without installing them into the VM (by mounting the modules
> over 9p): https://github.com/osandov/osandov-linux#vm-setup

All nice and good, but avoiding complexity is even better :)

Especially as there should be no reason to only allowing to configure
something at module load time in this century.