Re: [PATCH 5/6] xfs: remove dmapi tests from the auto group

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 08:04:33AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> There is no mainline kernel support for DMAPI in XFS, and so every
> time the xfstests auto group is run it throws a large number of
> "[not run] Assuming DMAPI modules are not loaded". I've noted that
> people are excluding the dmapi group to avoid this, so rather than
> inflict pain on everyone, make hose few that need to do dmapi
> testing include it specifically.
> 
> IOWs, remove the DMAPI tests from the auto group.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>

Yes, we shouldn't run them by default.  They also probably should move
from the tests/xfs/ dir to a new tests/dmapi one as they aren't really
XFS specific, they are specific to the out of tree dmapi code which
at one point could also support JFS.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>