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From: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
To: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Cc: xiao yang <yangx.jy@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	eguan@redhat.com, fstests@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH blktests] block/013: Add test for BLKRRPART ioctl
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 11:42:28 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171219194228.GB22017@vader.DHCP.thefacebook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mqd8tdzataq.fsf@linux-x5ow.site>

On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 11:47:09AM +0100, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> xiao yang <yangx.jy@cn.fujitsu.com> writes:
> 
> > +requires() {
> > +	_have_program mkfs.ext3
> > +}
> [...]
> > +	# Format
> > +	mkfs.ext3 -F "$TEST_DEV" >> "$FULL" 2>&1
> 
> What's the reason to limit the test case to ext3 only? Can you switch it
> to the generic 'mkfs' command? IIRC we require 'util-linux' to be
> present for blktests but mkfs.ext3 is (at least in SUSE based distros)
> in the e2fsprogs package.

I'm fine with only testing one specific filesystem, since we're really
testing generic functionality and not any filesystem code. And according
to the manpage, bare mkfs is deprecated. I'm fine with requiring
e2fsprogs for this test, and xiao yang added the _have_program there for
it.

> apart from that:
> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>

  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-19 19:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1511956946-16667-1-git-send-email-yangx.jy@cn.fujitsu.com>
2017-12-04  8:29 ` [PATCH] generic/473: test return EBUSY from BLKRRPART for mounted whole-dev Eryu Guan
2017-12-04  9:15   ` Xiao Yang
2017-12-04  9:25     ` Eryu Guan
2017-12-04  9:48       ` Xiao Yang
2017-12-04 18:29         ` Omar Sandoval
2017-12-19 10:30           ` [PATCH blktests] block/013: Add test for BLKRRPART ioctl xiao yang
2017-12-19 10:47             ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-12-19 19:42               ` Omar Sandoval [this message]
2017-12-20  8:03                 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-12-19 23:42             ` Omar Sandoval
2017-12-19 10:45           ` [PATCH] generic/473: test return EBUSY from BLKRRPART for mounted whole-dev Xiao Yang
2017-12-19 10:53             ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-12-19 10:59               ` Xiao Yang

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