In other words, you're testing your code only with simulated data so
there's no way to guarantee it's going to work on any real life
hardware (as we know hardware doesn't always exactly match the specs)?
That's unsettling. Please do mention it in the commit log, it's an
essential point. Better yet, consider going a bit off-centre after the
regular verification and do a control run on real hardware.
After all, that's what the code is for so if it all possible it's
better to know if it does the actual job before merging (to avoid
noise from follow-up patches like yours which fix something that never
worked because it was never tested).