From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ubifs: Allow O_DIRECT Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 01:06:20 -0700 Message-ID: <20150824080620.GB17815@infradead.org> References: <1440016553-26481-1-git-send-email-richard@nod.at> <1440016553-26481-2-git-send-email-richard@nod.at> <55D542C5.6040500@cn.fujitsu.com> <1440070300.31419.202.camel@gmail.com> <55D5BC92.8050903@nod.at> <1440074048.31419.204.camel@gmail.com> <1440400689.15510.30.camel@gmail.com> <55DAC4F6.2020808@cn.fujitsu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: dedekind1@gmail.com, Richard Weinberger , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Dongsheng Yang Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <55DAC4F6.2020808@cn.fujitsu.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 03:17:10PM +0800, Dongsheng Yang wrote: > >Richard, you mention this was suggested by Dave, could you please pint > >to the discussion, if possible? > > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2015-August/060702.html > > That's in a discussion I want to introduce ubifs into xfstests. FYI, xfstests is a test suite, _not_ an application. Adding O_DIRECT just for xfstests is utterly dumb and suggeting that is even dumber. xfstests should check for supported features, and skip tests that use it.