linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 3/3] replace _supported_fs with _exclude

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Message-ID: <20250129052859.GA28707@lst.de>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2025 06:28:59 +0100
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...nel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Zorro Lang <zlang@...nel.org>,
	Brian Foster <bfoster@...hat.com>, fstests@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] replace _supported_fs with _exclude_fs

On Tue, Jan 28, 2025 at 11:19:58AM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > system is not supported for the common test.  For ext4 this increases
> > the existing mess even further, but the maintainers have a plan to
> > move it to feature checks instead that are hopefully easier to
> > understand.
> 
> They do?  FWIW the tests/ext4 conversions look reasonable as a
> mechanical change to me, but I /was/ wondering what they'd think of this
> change.

Ted mentioned that's the preferred way in reply to v1 after he apparently
brought this up on some ext4 call.  I personally still think abusing
the ext4 dir for ext2/3 is stupid, but I don't care strongly enough to
fight.