Re: [PATCH 0/6] xfstests: remove most IRIX-specific code

[Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 11:12:35AM +0800, Eryu Guan wrote:
> On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 03:36:49PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> > From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
> > 
> > For some time xfstests has de facto not supported IRIX anymore.  The
> > final release of IRIX was over 10 years ago and it seems no one has
> > been running the latest xfstests releases on any IRIX system, as at
> > the very least xfstests now assumes the existence of some util-linux
> > binaries.  There are probably other examples of this bitrot too.
> > 
> > Therefore, this patchset simplifies things removing IRIX support from
> > the xfstests tests, build system, and documentation.
> > 
> > It focuses on making larger, more obvious cleanups.  Of course,
> > there's more to do if people want to spend more time going through
> > some of the more intricate details, especially XFS-specific details.
> > But this should be a good start.
> 
> Thanks a lot for doing this!! I didn't see patch #2 and #3 hit the list
> (too big for the list?). Do you have a public git repo that I can pull
> from?
> 

Ick, I guess the size limit must be 100K.  I've pushed the series out to
repository https://github.com/ebiggers/xfstests, branch "remove_irix_support".

Note that the two biggest patches can be more easily reviewed with
'git diff -D', since that abbreviates the file deletions.

Eric