Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-iotests: make a few more tests generic

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 09:47:54AM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig schrieb:
> > On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 11:58:58AM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> >> Christoph Hellwig schrieb:
> >>> Pretend that a non-implemented check is always successful and thus allow
> >>> various tests that were qcow2-specific before to be generic.
> >> Looks good in general. However, vmdk and vpc fail test case 011 for me.
> >> Not sure yet where the problem actually is, there seems to be no qemu-io
> >> output at all for these.
> > 
> > They pass for me.  So I guess we have a problem somewhere that we'll
> > eventually need to investigate.
> 
> This problem has already be found. Avi's patch from almost three weeks
> ago fixes it.

Ah, that explains why I don't see it.  I kept my local alternative fix
around in my quilt stack.

> It really starts to get annoying. How am I supposed to work with commits
> only every other week (which is bad enough) and then patches are
> forgotten and probably won't be merged before another two weeks? I guess
> I should manage some local tree with fixes myself and move away from
> basing my work on git master...

Yeah, working on qemu has been quite a challenge for me due to this,
too.  We can try to setup some sort of staging development tree.