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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] improve list_sort test
From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
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Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:48:36 +0300
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On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 09:59 -0700, don.mullis@gmail.com wrote:
> Thanks, Artem.  I've prepared and tested locally a patch series that
> brings in most of the series you sent earlier, and adds a few more
> cleanups.  The one patch of yours that I did replace was the last one,
> that modifies semantics of the correctness test.  My reasoning is that
> the value of testing lies in exposing bugs, as economically as possible,
> and your test wasn't exposing my power-of-two bug.  So I created an
> alternative that's as simple as possible while picking at the corner
> cases, e.g. power-of-two.

That's fine, thanks.

> Last in my local patch series is the bug fix itself.  Setting
> CONFIG_TEST_LIST_SORT and testing with all but the last patch applied
> produces failure messages on the boot console.  Pushing the final "fix"
> patch makes them go away :-)

Sounds good.

> Okay if I incorporate your comment addition, above, and post the series
> for review?

Sure, I'll be happy if you take care of this, just keep me in CC when
you submit the patches, please.

Thanks,
Artem.

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