Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 00/14] More patches to disable stuff

[Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>]

Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 17/07/2018 14:04, Juan Quintela wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> Notice that this is an RFC because they don't work.  As said on my
>> previous submmision, we need <foo>-softmmu/config-devices.h to make
>> this work.  This series just allow us to disable the devices, but not
>> to enable it back O:-)
>> 
>> Notice:
>> 
>> - scsi stuff: we are testing they in cdrom-test.c, so we need to be
>>   able to config them out.  Notice also that #ifdefs only go in tests/<...>
>> 
>> - virtio stuff: see how we need to also change hw/virtio/virtio-pci.c
>>   to disable it.  The problem appears in the device-instropect-test.c.
>>   As they are defined in the binary, but not complied in.  We can
>>   change for a registration appreach, but that is more work that what
>>   I intended for this series.
>
> Emanuele's GSoC project will be able to do this automatically; tests are
> defined to "consume" some devices, and are not enabled unless the device
> is present.

Nice.  Thanks.

>
> Thanks,
>
> Paolo