From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pf0-f196.google.com ([209.85.192.196]:35640 "EHLO mail-pf0-f196.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751116AbdFBBZO (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jun 2017 21:25:14 -0400 Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2017 18:25:11 -0700 From: Eric Biggers Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] xfstests: remove most IRIX-specific code Message-ID: <20170602012511.GB612@zzz> References: <20170531223655.130613-1-ebiggers3@gmail.com> <20170601031235.GV23805@eguan.usersys.redhat.com> <20170601032904.GA1083@zzz> <20170601072902.GY23805@eguan.usersys.redhat.com> <20170601153347.GG4519@birch.djwong.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170601153347.GG4519@birch.djwong.org> Sender: linux-xfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: List-Id: xfs To: "Darrick J. Wong" Cc: Eryu Guan , fstests@vger.kernel.org, Eric Biggers , linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 08:33:47AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 03:29:02PM +0800, Eryu Guan wrote: > > On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 08:29:04PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 11:12:35AM +0800, Eryu Guan wrote: > > > > On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 03:36:49PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote: > > > > > From: Eric Biggers > > > > > > > > > > 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? > > > > > > > > > > Ick, I guess the size limit must be 100K. I've pushed the series out to > > > repository https://github.com/ebiggers/xfstests, branch "remove_irix_support". > > > > > > Note that the two biggest patches can be more easily reviewed with > > > 'git diff -D', since that abbreviates the file deletions. > > > > Thanks! > > > > I also cc'ed linux-xfs list for review, as IRIX support is mainly for > > XFS. > > I think it's safe to drop IRIX support; xfsprogs dropped it in 4.10. > > That said, I also think "tests: remove IRIX-specific tests" removes too > many tests. generic/097 looks like a fairly generic xattr usage test, > why not just fix it to work on Linux (and sort the attrs to stabilize > the output)? Neither of the removed udf tests seem to test anything > Irix specific; either fix them to work with the Linux udf tools (or kill > udf/102). > > I looked through the rest of the patches in the branch and they looked > ok to me. Thanks for cleaning out that cruft. > > --D > Okay, thanks for the review. When I have time I'll look into porting the removed tests to Linux. I also noticed there's a small bug in patch 3/6 that broke xfs/073; I'll fix that in v2. (Also, for easier review I'll probably use 'git format-patch -D' so the mailing list doesn't eat the larger patches.) Eric