Re: Trying to work with the tests

[Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>]

On 2024/4/24 17:47, Ian Kent wrote:
> On 23/4/24 18:34, Gao Xiang wrote:
>> Hi Ian,
>>
>> On 2024/4/22 21:10, Ian Kent wrote:
>>> On 22/4/24 17:12, Gao Xiang wrote:
>>>> Hi Ian,
>>>>
>>>> (+Cc Jingbo here).
>>>>
>>>> On 2024/4/22 16:31, Ian Kent wrote:
>>>>> I'm new to the list so Hi to all,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm working with a heavily patched 5.14 kernel and I've gathered together patches to bring erofs
>>>>>
>>>>> up to 5.19 and I'm trying to run the erofs and fscache tests from a checkout of the 1.7.1 repo.
>>>>>
>>>>> (branch experimental-tests-fscache) and I have a couple of fails I can't quite work out so I'm
>>>>>
>>>>> hoping for a little halp.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your interest and provide the detailed infos.
>>>>
>>>> I guess a modified 5.14 kernel may be originated from RHEL 9?
>>>
>>> Yes, that's right.
>>>
>>> I am working on improving erofs support in RHEL which of course goes via CentOS Stream 9.
>>
>> BTW, could you submit the current patches to CentOS stream 9 mainline?
>> so I could review as well.
> 
> CentOS Stream is meant to allow our development to be public so, yes, I would like to do that.
> 
> 
> It will be interesting to see how it works, I'll have a look around the CentOS web site to see if I can work
> 
> out how it looks to external people.
> 
> 
> Timing is good too as I'm about to construct a merge request and our process requires that to be against
> 
> the CentOS Stream repo.
> 
> 
> That repository is located on GitLab ... so we'll need to work out how to go about that.

Yeah, so I could apply the pull request and play on my local
development machice.


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>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have a plan to backport the latest EROFS to CentOS stream 9, but
>>>> currently I'm busy in internal stuffs, so it's still a bit delayed...
>>>
>>> Right, Eric mentioned you were keen to help out.
>>>
>>>
>>> The full back port is a bit much to do in one step, I'd like to let it settle for a minor release before considering
>>>
>>> further back port effort. Of course any assistance is also welcome if and when you have time.
>>
>> Yeah, since you've already picked to Linux 5.19.  So I think I could
>> also give a try if these commits are available on gitlab...
>>
>> I think I can help nail down the issue (fscache/005) too.
> 
> Right, there are only a couple of problems with the tests so I've decided to go ahead with the merge request and
> 
> work the test problems out those out as I go.

Yes, that is more effective to the problem on my side :-)

Thanks,
Gao Xiang

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> 
> Ian