Re: [PATCH] iotests: Do not run the iotests during "make check" anymore

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> writes:

> On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 04:21:46PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> Running the iotests during "make check" is causing more headaches than
>> benefits for the block layer maintainers, so let's disable the iotests
>> during "make check" again.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
>> ---
>>  tests/Makefile.include   | 2 +-
>>  tests/qemu-iotests/group | 2 +-
>>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> I don't have any objection to removing from 'make check', but I feel
> like this commit should be modifying the travis.yml config so that
> it explicitly runs the block tests, otherwise we're loosing automated
> CI and the block tests will increase their rate of bitrot again.

I think we run a subset on gitlab as well. Do the iotests need any
particular build of QEMU? Lets try and avoid adding unneeded targets.

I must admit I've been out of the loop here. What headaches are they
causing? Too many false positives?


>
>
> Regards,
> Daniel


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Alex Bennée