Re: [PATCH] test: add fio test for device-dax

On 03/30/2017 01:12 PM, Dan Williams wrote: > On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 10:06 AM, Linda Knippers <linda.knippers(a)hpe.com&gt; wrote: >> >> >> On 3/30/2017 12:56 PM, Dan Williams wrote: > [..] >>> Patches welcome :). >> >> >> You won't like my patch for that because I agree with Jeff. :-) >> >> Right now I'm more interested in seeing if I can modify the tests to not >> require nfit_test. I've only looked at btt-check.sh but so far, it doesn't >> look that hard. > > The point of nfit_test is that you can run them with worrying about > risks to real data. So I don't want to see patches moving existing > nfit_test tests to something else. I'd like to test on an unmodified kernel using real hardware with a real nfit. As long as it's clear that the test needs a scratch device, why is that bad? Maybe other tests are more difficult but the btt-check test looks pretty straightforward.