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Message-ID: <20150824080620.GB17815@infradead.org>
Date:	Mon, 24 Aug 2015 01:06:20 -0700
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Dongsheng Yang <yangds.fnst@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	dedekind1@...il.com, Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ubifs: Allow O_DIRECT

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 03:17:10PM +0800, Dongsheng Yang wrote:
> >Richard, you mention this was suggested by Dave, could you please pint
> >to the discussion, if possible?
> 
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2015-August/060702.html
> 
> That's in a discussion I want to introduce ubifs into xfstests.

FYI, xfstests is a test suite, _not_ an application.  Adding O_DIRECT
just for xfstests is utterly dumb and suggeting that is even dumber.

xfstests should check for supported features, and skip tests that use
it.
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