linux-kernel - Re: Sporadic regmap unit test failure in raw

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Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2024 17:19:34 +0000
From: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Sporadic regmap unit test failure in raw_sync

On Fri, Feb 09, 2024 at 08:30:30AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 2/9/24 02:14, Mark Brown wrote:

> > Something like that, perhaps not that specific diff.  There's a bunch of
> > tests that might be impacted as well so probably a helper would make

> You are correct, though, unless I am missing something, those other cases
> will result in wrongly passed tests, not wrongly failed tests. Not that
> this is really better, but in a way it is less severe since that will also
> only happen with the same low probability.

Yes, on further inspection the other tests don't care what the value
they're replacing is which isn't ideal.

> > sense here if nothing else, I should be able to take a look today or
> > tomorrow.

> Sounds good.

I've got a patch in CI now which fixes the failures and adds the helper,
I'll go back later and ensure that the other attempts to change actually
do change the values.

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