linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cxl_test: remove nvdimm requirement

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Message-ID: <Y7XYhYdf0NEEdZAZ@bombadil.infradead.org>
Date:   Wed, 4 Jan 2023 11:50:29 -0800
From:   Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
To:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Cc:     alison.schofield@...el.com, vishal.l.verma@...el.com,
        ira.weiny@...el.com, bwidawsk@...nel.org, dave@...olabs.net,
        a.manzanares@...sung.com, linux-cxl@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cxl_test: remove nvdimm requirement

On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 12:13:40PM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> > There is no need for NVDIMM to test CXL, so remove this
> > requirement.
> 
> Are you perhaps running without the new nvdimm pmem security test?
> 
> http://lore.kernel.org/r/167105505204.3034751.8113387624258581781.stgit@djiang5-desk3.ch.intel.com/
> 
> ...again these types of mismatches are expected in and around the merge
> window when linux.git and ndctl.git get out of sync. I would skip
> running cxl_test for regression purposes until around -rc2 timeframe
> when all of the new code has settled in both repositories.

No, since one can build CXL without NVDIMM it seems this is a fair
change as well.

  Luis