[PATCH] mkfs.xfs: fix ftype-vs-crc option combination testing

Jan Tulak jtulak at redhat.com
Fri Aug 14 01:12:49 CDT 2015


On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 3:57 AM, Dave Chinner <david at fromorbit.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 01:14:25PM +0200, Jan Tulak wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 6:42 PM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen at sandeen.net>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > IIRC, I think this is one of the core problems the big mkfs option
> > > > parsing rework that Jan is working on is supposed to fix.
> > >
> > > Yeah, I think so - Jan, if this gets in your way, let us know -
> > > I didn't mean to make your life difficult by fixing little
> > > things while you work.  :)
> >
> > Well, I would not mind if the entire codebase froze... :-D
> > But realistically, every time I do git fetch I get so many collisions
> that
> > one
> > more or less changes nothing. :-)
>
> Well, I'm hoping all the big changes getting libxfs up to date with
> the kernel code are now done, and things will settle down for the
> next few months so this will be less of a problem. Also having a
> stable master branch and a moving for-next branch for xfsprogs
> should help with this, too...
>

That would be nice.


> > And yes, in my tests I'm trying to cover the arguments order issue too.
>
> The structure of the table-based parsing should make the order of
> parsing irrelevant, as conflicts are defined in the table and so
> will be detected regardless of the order in which the options appear
> on the command line.
>

However it still has to be tested if it works as supposed. Of course I'm not
trying all combinations for all arguments. :-)

Cheers,
Jan

-- 
Jan Tulak
jtulak at redhat.com
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