Re: [PATCH] tests/xfs/040: document purpose

[Bill O'Donnell <billodo@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 12:41:18PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> Getting xfs/040 to "pass" takes a bit of effort, however the effort
> to require updating xfsprogs is purely an xfsprogs maintainer task
> only. There no functional gain by users of xfs or a QA team to get
> this test to pass. This is not trivial from the current description
> so document this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>

Looks good...

Reviewed-by: Bill O'Donnell <billodo@redhat.com>

> ---
>  tests/xfs/040 | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/tests/xfs/040 b/tests/xfs/040
> index fadb888cbfaf..a0abc42f3720 100755
> --- a/tests/xfs/040
> +++ b/tests/xfs/040
> @@ -3,6 +3,11 @@
>  #
>  # compare-libxfs test
>  #
> +# The purpose of this test is only to nag the maintainer of xfsprogs to try to
> +# keep xfsprogs's libxfs files in sync with the latest kernel's libxfs. There
> +# is no functional need for anyone to actually run this test to confirm
> +# proper XFS functionalilty, this is an xfsprogs maintainer test.
> +#
>  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>  # Copyright (c) 2000-2001 Silicon Graphics, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
>  #
> -- 
> 2.15.0
> 
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