Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] Add new CD-ROM related qtests

[John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>]

On 04/02/2018 02:39 PM, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 29.03.2018 20:28, John Snow wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 03/16/2018 01:39 AM, Thomas Huth wrote:
>>> With one of my clean-up patches (see commit 1454509726719e0933c800), I
>>> recently accidentially broke the "-cdrom" parameter (more precisely
>>> "-drive if=scsi") on a couple of boards, since there was no error
>>> detected during the "make check" regression testing. This is clearly an
>>> indication that we are lacking tests in this area.
>>> So this small patch series now introduces some tests for CD-ROM drives:
>>> The first two patches introduce the possibility to check that booting
>>> from CD-ROM drives still works fine for x86 and s390x, and the third
>>> patch adds a test that certain machines can at least still be started
>>> with the "-cdrom" parameter (i.e. that test would have catched the
>>> mistake that I did with my SCSI cleanup patch).
>>>
>>> v2:
>>>  - Use g_spawn_sync() instead of execlp() to run genisoimage
>>>  - The "-cdrom" parameter test is now run on all architectures (with
>>>    machine "none" for the machines that are not explicitly checked)
>>>  - Some rewordings and improved comments here and there
>>>
>>> Thomas Huth (3):
>>>   tests/boot-sector: Add magic bytes to s390x boot code header
>>>   tests/cdrom-test: Test booting from CD-ROM ISO image file
>>>   tests/cdrom-test: Test that -cdrom parameter is working
>>>
>>>  tests/Makefile.include |   2 +
>>>  tests/boot-sector.c    |   9 +-
>>>  tests/cdrom-test.c     | 222 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  3 files changed, 230 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>>  create mode 100644 tests/cdrom-test.c
>>>
>>
>> New file, but no edit to MAINTAINERS.
> 
> Which section do you suggest? It tests IDE CD-ROMs, SCSI CD-ROMs, and
> even virtio-block (on s390x) ... so I have a hard time to decide where
> this should belong to...
> 
>  Thomas
> 

I was hoping you'd figure it out, but fine :D

You can stick it under my section if you want, but I'll probably defer
to you if the s390x parts break.

--js