The mtd fio engine will support trim (interpreted as erase). There is
no particular reason to tie trims to block devices, as it is only a
particular ioengine which calls the trim ioctl, not generic code.
This patch simply removes the test which checks that trim is only
run on block devices.

Signed-off-by: Dan Ehrenberg <[email protected]>
---
 filesetup.c | 5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/filesetup.c b/filesetup.c
index 0fb5589..4b63632 100644
--- a/filesetup.c
+++ b/filesetup.c
@@ -512,11 +512,6 @@ int generic_open_file(struct thread_data *td, struct 
fio_file *f)
 
        dprint(FD_FILE, "fd open %s\n", f->file_name);
 
-       if (td_trim(td) && f->filetype != FIO_TYPE_BD) {
-               log_err("fio: trim only applies to block device\n");
-               return 1;
-       }
-
        if (!strcmp(f->file_name, "-")) {
                if (td_rw(td)) {
                        log_err("fio: can't read/write to stdin/out\n");
-- 
2.2.0.rc0.207.ga3a616c

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