Re: [PATCH] selftests/mm: remove virtual_address_range test

[Lorenzo Stoakes]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 02:36:05PM +0530, Dev Jain wrote:
> >> About internal impl details, how is this test any different from merge.c, cow.c,
> >> etc - which consistently test/depend on whether the VMA splits/merges?
> > This is not a hugely civil/productive way of responding here to be honest, it's
> > what-about-ery and implying something that isn't very kind...
>
> Sorry if I have offended you, I did not mean to imply "two wrongs make a right", I
> meant to understand how the two tests differ...
>

I'm not offended :) just saying it's distracting from the technical conversation
- it's better to remain focused on the problem at hand.

I've made a couple technical suggestions that are hopefully reasonable - I think
introducing a new, clean, test that asserts very specifically what we want to is
a good way forwards here.

Thanks, Lorenzo