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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: xfstest failures
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 07:46:43 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <527B99C3.6090903@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131107132739.GA16608@infradead.org>

On 11/7/13, 7:27 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 07:24:28AM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> On 11/7/13, 2:17 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>> On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 12:20:47PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>>>> that's right, it's a known bug w/ a testcase but no fix yet.
>>>>
>>>> I looked a bit, but ugh, xfsdump.
>>>
>>> Maybe it's time you come up with an xfail mechanism at least?
>>
>> What's the proposal there, a "fail" group for things known to still
>> fail everywhere?
>>
>> so i.e. ./check -x fail ?  I can easily send a patch for that if
>> that's what folks want.
> 
> A mechnism to annotate a test as xfail, so that check would output them
> at the end ala:
> 
> Expected failures:  common/263
> Unexpected successes: reiser4/001
> 

The thing that's tricky about that is that what's expected depends
so heavily on what kernel is running.

Would an expected failure be only for tests which are known to be
not-fixed anywhere?

-Eric

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-07 13:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-06 10:54 xfstest failures Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-06 16:18 ` Ben Myers
2013-11-06 18:20   ` Eric Sandeen
2013-11-07  8:17     ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-07 13:24       ` Eric Sandeen
2013-11-07 13:27         ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-07 13:46           ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2013-11-07 13:48             ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-07 20:49               ` Ben Myers
2013-11-10 20:34               ` Dave Chinner
2013-11-10 20:33           ` Dave Chinner
2013-11-06 19:44 ` Dave Chinner
2013-11-06 19:58   ` Mark Tinguely
2013-11-07  8:16     ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-07 13:24       ` Mark Tinguely
2013-11-07 13:58         ` Eric Sandeen
2013-11-07 14:00           ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-07 14:02             ` Eric Sandeen
2013-11-07 20:59         ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-07  8:22   ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-07 11:57     ` Dave Chinner
2013-11-07 12:01       ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-07 12:23       ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-07 13:14       ` Markus Trippelsdorf

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