From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54001) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VK1tR-0005u6-3g for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 12 Sep 2013 04:04:54 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VK1tM-00085M-BS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 12 Sep 2013 04:04:49 -0400 Received: from lhrrgout.huawei.com ([194.213.3.17]:14735) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VK1tM-00085F-1s for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 12 Sep 2013 04:04:44 -0400 Message-ID: <52317568.9070700@huawei.com> Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 10:03:52 +0200 From: Claudio Fontana MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1378144503-15808-1-git-send-email-rth@twiddle.net> <522D8339.1090002@huawei.com> <522DD679.9030201@twiddle.net> <522DE2EF.1010902@huawei.com> <522DE416.80406@twiddle.net> <522ED7D9.4000009@huawei.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/29] tcg-aarch64 improvements List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Peter Maydell Cc: QEMU Developers , Richard Henderson On 10.09.2013 10:45, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 10 September 2013 09:27, Claudio Fontana wrote: >> On another side, I end up having to manually revert some parts >> of these which you put as prerequisites, during bisection when >> landing after them, which is a huge time drain when tracking >> regressions introduced in the later part of the series. > > I don't understand this; can you explain? If these early > refactoring patches have bugs then we should just identify > them and fix them. If they don't have bugs why would you > need to manually revert parts of them? > To revert the next patches which do introduce bugs. I could not see bugs in the refactoring patches, but there is stuff to fix regardless of bugs.