Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] virtio: avoid inappropriate QEMU termination

[Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>]

On Wed, 09/21 15:44, Greg Kurz wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Sep 2016 06:35:04 -0700 (PDT)
> no-reply@patchew.org wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Your series failed automatic build test. Please find the testing commands and
> > their output below. If you have docker installed, you can probably reproduce it
> > locally.
> > 
> 
> Heh... of course patchew doesn't know about Stefan's series. :)

Usually those patchsets fail to apply and patchew keeps quiet. This series is
the first victim of a exception, seemingly. :)

> 
> Is there an appropriate way to avoid complaints when sending a patchset that
> isn't based on QEMU master ?

Currently we don't, but we can invent one. Like:

Base: http://github.com/someone/qemu branch

for the "base on maintainer tree" case, or just inform patchew to "pull"
instead of apply:

Git: http://github.com/someone/qemu topic

for the "base on the other series" case.

Supporting this is not complicated, the tricky thing is to remember to put that
magic in cover letters every time a series doesn't base on master.

Any thoughts on the harder question? :)

Fam