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Date:   Mon, 29 Aug 2022 12:06:57 +0200
From:   Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To:     Zorro Lang <zlang@redhat.com>
Cc:     Yang Xu <xuyang2018.jy@fujitsu.com>, fstests@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4/053: Remove nouser_xattr test
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On Sun 28-08-22 10:48:58, Zorro Lang wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 11:10:23AM +0800, Yang Xu wrote:
> > Plan to remove noacl and nouser_xattr mount option in kernel because they
> > are deprecated[1]. So remove nouser_xattr test in here.
> 
> What's the [1]?
> 
> We'd better to be careful when we want to remove a testing coverage. I'm not
> sure if they've decided to removed this mount option, the ext4/053 is an
> important test case for ext4, so I'd like to hear their opinion.

Yes, the option is long deprecated and we want to remove it from ext4. But
I think you might want to see official ack from Ted as a maintainer on this
:). Ted?

								Honza

> > Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Yang Xu <xuyang2018.jy@fujitsu.com>
> > ---
> >  tests/ext4/053 | 1 -
> >  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/tests/ext4/053 b/tests/ext4/053
> > index 555e474e..5d2c478a 100755
> > --- a/tests/ext4/053
> > +++ b/tests/ext4/053
> > @@ -439,7 +439,6 @@ for fstype in ext2 ext3 ext4; do
> >  	mnt oldalloc removed
> >  	mnt orlov removed
> >  	mnt -t user_xattr
> > -	mnt nouser_xattr
> >  
> >  	if _has_kernel_config CONFIG_EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL; then
> >  		mnt -t acl
> > -- 
> > 2.27.0
> > 
> 
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR