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On 28/Jul/2013 7:51 AM, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> 2013/7/28 Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>:
>> I like this idea. There is definitely too much code duplication.
>>
>> However, there is an important tradeoff here: now to run these (very
>> simple) tests, we have a two-step process*:
>>
>> insmod mtd_test.ko
>> insmod mtd_<actualtest>.ko dev=<MTD>
>>
>> [* modprobe would solve this problem, but these tests are often
>> compiled and run by hand, sometimes on systems without the convenience
>> of modprobe ]
>>
>> We could still accomplish the reduction in (source) code duplication
>> by simply including these simple routines in a header, then the code
>> would be compiled into each test module. I realize this isn't
>> typically the "best" way to share code, but since these are just test
>> modules and really don't need to be optimized for code size, I think
>> it is worth avoiding the extra step of inserting another module.
>
> I understand your concern and I'm going to change this series to move
> all these functions into a header file.  But I'll wait other opinion
> for a while.

You can refer this.
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.mtd/43932/focus=43941>

And also Artem's feedback here
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.mtd/43932/focus=43941>

However, I didn't get much time to make this patch better as Artem 
suggested.

~Vikram