linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v10 00/14] module: core code clean up

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Message-ID: <1245a265-e3c0-b52a-5fc4-9508f5dd211e@csgroup.eu>
Date:   Tue, 8 Mar 2022 06:10:56 +0000
From:   Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>
To:     Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
        Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@...hat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 00/14] module: core code clean up

Hi Luis,

Le 07/03/2022 à 22:05, Luis Chamberlain a écrit :
> On Mon, Mar 07, 2022 at 05:44:55PM +0000, Aaron Tomlin wrote:
>> Hi Luis,
>>
>> As per your suggestion [1], this is an attempt to refactor and split
>> optional code out of core module support code into separate components.
>> This version is based on Linus' commit 7993e65fdd0f ("Merge tag
>> 'mtd/fixes-for-5.17-rc5' of
>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mtd/linux").
> 
> Thanks! Pushed out to modules-testing to see what 0-day can find.
> Further review from others is welcomed in the meantime. If no issues
> are found, we also get kmod testing done, and more reviews, I can
> push then later to modules-next for further testing on linux-next.
> 

As far as I understood kmod testing doesn't test the kernel at all so it 
won't test any of our changes.

In his mail last week, Lucas said: "kmod's testsuite don't test anything 
on the kernel side... the kernel part is mocked by the testsuite itself."

Christophe