Re: CIFS module build verification system

[David Disseldorp <ddiss@suse.de>]

Hi Pavel,

On Mon, 18 Aug 2014 21:46:44 +0400, Pavel Shilovsky wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> During the second part of the GSoC program of this year I has been
> working on build verification system for CIFS kernel module.
> 
> Now, I got the system ready to test module with Cthon and XFS test
> suites. Both suites has some tests (that are not working with CIFS)
> disabled. I was trying to make it easier to add new test suites
> further.
> 
> The system is based on bash scripts that can be run from cron. The
> scripts automatically pull the recent changes from the predefined git
> repository, build the module and run tests against it.

Thanks for putting this together!

> The git repo for build verification system scripts:
> http://git.altlinux.org/people/piastry/public/?p=cifs-tests.git;a=summary
> 
> The git repo for patched Cthon tests (merged by Steve Dickson into his tree):
> http://git.altlinux.org/people/piastry/public/?p=cthon04.git;a=summary

I haven't looked at your cifs-tests or cthon04 tests yet.

> The git repo for patched XFS tests:
> http://git.altlinux.org/people/piastry/public/?p=xfstests.git;a=summary

        nfs)
                export MKFS_OPTIONS=$NFS_MKFS_OPTIONS
                ;;
+       nfs)
+               export MKFS_OPTIONS=$CIFS_MKFS_OPTIONS
+               ;;

Should be "cifs)".

Would be good to add an auto group to tests/cifs/group, which could be
added to as existing tests are made to pass on cifs.

Also, a brief description in README of how to run against a cifs mount
would be useful. E.g.
http://git.samba.org/?p=ddiss/fstests.git;a=commitdiff;h=b99c5b12799b4db3edcb6430e000db6afb5db9a9