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On Tue, 2016-04-26 at 00:13 +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> David was so kind and did an initial port of Linux's MTD tests to
> user space.
> He took most tests as-is and massaged them to work in user space
> using libmtd.
> In the long run the goal is giving up the kernel tests as much as
> possible
> and improve the tests present in mtd-utils.
> 
> Feedback is very welcome!

I would consider moving them, not just porting. Indeed, we probably do
not want to have the same code in 2 places, or is there a strong reason
why would we want that?

Artem.