Re: [PATCH v2] ext4: replace strcpy() with '.' assignment

Theodore Ts'o
2025-05-19T13:56:53Z

On Mon, May 19, 2025 at 01:58:02PM +0800, kernel test robot wrote:
> Hi Ethan,
>
> kernel test robot noticed the following build errors:

Hi Ethan,

I would really appreciate it if you would at least do a build test
before sending out a patch. In addition, it would also be helpful if
you ran a smoke test, using "kvm-xfstests smoke". The instructions
for how to use kvm-xfstests can be found here[1], and it was designed
to be as easy as possible for people who are sending "drive-by
patches".

[1] https://github.com/tytso/xfstests-bld/blob/master/Documentation/kvm-quickstart.md

Running the smoketest only takes about 20 minutes; although if you
want to run more sophistcated testing there is also "kvm-xfstests -c
ext4/4k -g quick", or "kvm-xfstests -c ext4/4k -g auto", or if you
have a 24 hours to kill, there's always "kvm-xfststs full". (Although
these days I generally use gce-xfstests[2] since this can shard the test
runs across multiple VM's, so it only takes 2.5 hours of wall clock
time.)

[2] https://thunk.org/gce-xfstests

Cheers,

- TEd