linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] check: add support for an external test expunging file

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Message-ID: <20140416001530.GU15995@dastard>
Date:	Wed, 16 Apr 2014 10:15:30 +1000
From:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
To:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	xfs@....sgi.com, Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] check: add support for an external test expunging file

On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 10:52:00PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> Currently the -X option is intended to specify a set of expunging
> files which are stored in each test/* subdirectory.  As described in
> the commit description for 0b1e8abd4, in order to exclude the test
> generic/280, the -X option is used as follows:
> 
>     $ cat tests/generic/3.0-stable-avoid
>     280
>     $ sudo ./check -X 3.0-stable-avoid generic/280
> 
> However, it is sometimes useful to store the set of expunged tests in
> a single file, outside of tests/* subdirectories.  This commit allows
> the following:
> 
>     $ cat /root/conf/data_journal.exclude
>     generic/068
>     ext4/301
>     $ sudo ./check -X /root/conf/data_journal.exclude -g auto
> 
> If the argument to the -X option is a pathname (that is, includes a
> '/' character), treat it as the latter case.  If it the argument to
> the -X option is just a bare filename (that is, does not include '/'
> character), treat it as the former.

Can you add a new option rather than overloading the existing one
with new meanings and semantics?

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@...morbit.com
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