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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Eryu Guan <eguan@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, fstests@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] generic/071: require falloc -k
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 06:17:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160719041718.GA17223@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160718084714.GD27776@eguan.usersys.redhat.com>

On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 04:47:14PM +0800, Eryu Guan wrote:
> This stops generic/071 from running no matter what filesystem it's
> testing, this is because _require_xfs_io_command only checks whether
> xfs_io knows the option (-k) by searching it in help message, not really
> running it, i.e.

Well, we can at least add the documentation as that would be useful
on it's own.  I'll look into a patch.

> Perhaps we should update _require_xfs_io_command to actually run the
> command with the provided additional option?

I'll have to look at the archives, but I remember we had a reason for
this way of probing for feature support.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-19  4:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-18  8:06 [PATCH] generic/071: require falloc -k Christoph Hellwig
2016-07-18  8:47 ` Eryu Guan
2016-07-19  4:17   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2016-07-19  6:49     ` Eric Sandeen
2016-07-19  8:30       ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-07-20  4:52         ` Eryu Guan
2016-07-20  5:34           ` Eric Sandeen
2016-07-20 12:40             ` Eryu Guan
2016-07-20  4:38       ` Eryu Guan

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