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From: Miquel RAYNAL <miquel.raynal@free-electrons.com>
To: David Oberhollenzer <david.oberhollenzer@sigma-star.at>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd-utils: tests: avoid using only one block in nandpagetest
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 11:01:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170824110104.5740cfb1@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e5fc2f53-738f-037b-6bd6-c1aa18d363f7@sigma-star.at>

Hi David,

> > The case 'first == last' leads to erasing the block before reading
> > it. Hence the test will fail with no actual reason.
> >   
> So if some existing automated test setup were to use this, it would
> (as of right now) *always* fail and terminate with EXIT_FAILURE.
> 
> > The patch does not forbid the use of -c1 as it could do it in
> > process_options() with a errmsg_die(). Instead, it warns the user
> > and uses a second block in order to avoid risking to break existing
> > scripts. 
> But wouldn't exactly that change the behavior of such a setup by
> suddenly having all tests succeed?
> 
> If this combination of options always fails anyway, wouldn't it be
> more appropriate to terminate with an error message in
> process_options instead?

I though you would prefer to do not exit with an error but I it is ok
for me, I will resend the patch, with an error thrown in
process_options().

Regards,
Miquèl

      reply	other threads:[~2017-08-24  9:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-23 13:57 [PATCH] mtd-utils: tests: avoid using only one block in nandpagetest Miquel Raynal
2017-08-24  8:40 ` David Oberhollenzer
2017-08-24  9:01   ` Miquel RAYNAL [this message]

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