Re: [Qemu-devel] [qemu PATCH 2/5] acpi: "make check" should fail on asl mismatch

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 08.06.2018 20:41, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 07:23:06PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> On 08.06.2018 18:24, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 05:16:30PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
[...]
>>>> If there's a situation that shouldn't exist in the tree (ie
>>>> a bug), then make check should catch it, and result in a
>>>> failure, not just printing random stuff to stderr. Otherwise
>>>> I'm not going to notice it, whether I'm applying a pull request
>>>> or an individual patch.
>>>>
>>> It's ok if it happens, but it just makes debugging and reviewing
>>> ACPI patches a little bit harder until it's fixed.
>>
>> It's maybe ok for *you*, but this certainly confuses everybody else. If
>> I want to check my patches and suddenly some strange warnings are
>> popping up, I first assume that there is something wrong in my patches
>> (since I assume that the git repository is clean by default). So I've
>> got to waste my time debugging issues that are not my own. Thanks for
>> that :-/
> 
> Right so normally these do not pop out at all as I fix expected
> with a patch on top.

Apparently other people can also introduce changes that cause these
warnings. Anyway, I now "fixed" it here by uninstalling iasl, so never mind.

 Thomas