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From: Eryu Guan <eguan@redhat.com>
To: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com>
Cc: fstests@vger.kernel.org, Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] xfstests: remove most IRIX-specific code
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2017 11:12:35 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170601031235.GV23805@eguan.usersys.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170531223655.130613-1-ebiggers3@gmail.com>

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?

Thanks again!

Eryu

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-06-01  3:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-31 22:36 [PATCH 0/6] xfstests: remove most IRIX-specific code Eric Biggers
2017-05-31 22:36 ` [PATCH 1/6] README: remove IRIX-specific documentation Eric Biggers
2017-05-31 22:36 ` [PATCH 4/6] tests: clean up per-OS output files Eric Biggers
2017-05-31 22:36 ` [PATCH 5/6] common: remove IRIX-specific code Eric Biggers
2017-05-31 22:36 ` [PATCH 6/6] build: remove IRIX-specific build logic Eric Biggers
2017-06-01  3:12 ` Eryu Guan [this message]
2017-06-01  3:29   ` [PATCH 0/6] xfstests: remove most IRIX-specific code Eric Biggers
2017-06-01  7:29     ` Eryu Guan
2017-06-01 15:33       ` Darrick J. Wong
2017-06-02  1:25         ` Eric Biggers
2017-06-02  2:54           ` Eryu Guan
2017-06-02  3:34         ` Eryu Guan

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