[PATCH -v2] check: add support for an external file containing tests to exclude

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 04:40:18PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 12:58:22AM -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 enables
> > the following:
> > 
> >     $ cat /root/conf/data_journal.exclude
> >     generic/068
> >     ext4/301
> >     $ sudo ./check -E /root/conf/data_journal.exclude -g auto
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso at mit.edu>
> 
> Looks good.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner at redhat.com>

This patch has apparently not hit the xfstests repository.  Would you
like me to resend it?

Thanks,

						- Ted