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From: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
To: Saurabh Sengar <saurabh.truth@gmail.com>
Cc: joe@perches.com, andy.shevchenko@gmail.com,
	joern@lazybastard.org, dwmw2@infradead.org,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: phram: error handling
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 11:41:57 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151110194157.GS12143@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1447183675-4840-1-git-send-email-saurabh.truth@gmail.com>

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 12:57:55AM +0530, Saurabh Sengar wrote:
> Sorry, I am not able to test the driver, sending the patch as asked above.

Well, today you're in luck! You're touching a driver that requires no
special hardware, so you should be able to test it.

I think you can try using the mem= kernel parameter (see
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt) to restrict your system memory, and
then try using that unreachable portions of memory for phram. You can
try this driver as either a module or built-in. For the former, you can
specify the parameters during modprobe time, or later by writing to
/sys/module/phram/parameters/phram. For the latter, you can specify on
the kernel command line or in /sys/module/phram/parameters/phram.

Let me know if you have any more questions about testing your patch.

Brian

  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-10 19:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-08  8:47 [PATCH] mtd: phram: error handling Saurabh Sengar
2015-11-08 21:23 ` Andy Shevchenko
2015-11-09  6:23   ` [PATCH v2] " Saurabh Sengar
2015-11-10 18:20     ` Brian Norris
2015-11-10 18:33       ` [PATCH] " Joe Perches
2015-11-10 18:39         ` Brian Norris
2015-11-10 18:45           ` Joe Perches
2015-11-10 19:03             ` Brian Norris
2015-11-10 19:27               ` Saurabh Sengar
2015-11-10 19:41                 ` Brian Norris [this message]
2015-11-11  8:23                   ` Saurabh Sengar
2015-11-11 19:44                     ` Brian Norris
2015-11-12  6:23                       ` Saurabh Sengar

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