From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: Peter Lafreniere <peter@n8pjl.ca>
Cc: linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org, tsbogend@alpha.franken.de,
jack@suse.cz, reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, richard.henderson@linaro.org,
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anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] arch/*: config: Remove ReiserFS from defconfig
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2023 11:30:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMuHMdWQwDzAnbQvBvt3iuL=UPxtufU=TgQM=oKjDvmgmrcy3g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230919161535.4774-1-peter@n8pjl.ca>
Hi Peter,
On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 6:16 PM Peter Lafreniere <peter@n8pjl.ca> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 12:02, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 5:58 PM Peter Lafreniere peter@n8pjl.ca wrote:
> > > 2) Stops building an obsolete and largely-unused filesystem unnecessarily.
> > > Some hobbyist targets like m68k and alpha may prefer to keep all filesystems
> > > available until total removal, but others like arm and UML have no need for
> > > ReiserFS to be built unless specifically configured.
> >
> >
> > As UML is used a lot for testing, isn't it actually counter-productive
> > to remove ReiserFS from the UML defconfig? The less testing it
> > receives, the higher the chance of introducing regressions.
>
> UML is used for testing, but in my view that makes the inclusion of
> ReiserFS in its defconfig even worse. Users of UML are trying to test a
Why?
Because you want to avoid doing any testing at all on deprecated features?
> particular function, and so tend to use ext[2-4], as those are included in
> the defconfig and are well tested and stable. So there is no extra testing
> being done on ReiserFS due to its inclusion in the defconfig.
I'd expect global file system testers to use something along the line of:
for i in $(grep -v nodev /proc/filesystems ); do
echo --- Testing $i ---
dd if=/dev/zero of=testimage bs=1M count=1 seek=10000
mkfs.$i testimage
mount testimage /mnt -t $i
[run xfstests on testimage]
rm -f testimage
done
> Keeping UML's defconfig as slim as possible improves build times, which is
> particularly important for kernel testing and development.
Good luck testing all functionality using a "slim" kernel ;-)
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-20 9:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-18 17:56 [PATCH 0/7] arch/*: config: Remove ReiserFS from defconfig Peter Lafreniere
2023-09-18 17:57 ` [PATCH 7/7] arch: alpha: remove " Peter Lafreniere
2023-09-18 23:41 ` [PATCH 0/7] arch/*: config: Remove " Segher Boessenkool
2023-09-19 0:00 ` Peter Lafreniere
2023-09-19 15:16 ` Segher Boessenkool
2023-09-19 15:58 ` Peter Lafreniere
2023-09-19 16:02 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2023-09-19 16:15 ` Peter Lafreniere
2023-09-20 9:30 ` Geert Uytterhoeven [this message]
2023-09-20 16:56 ` Jan Kara
2023-10-15 10:04 ` (subset) " Michael Ellerman
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