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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 00/36] QAPI patches for 2018-03-12,
 2.12 softfreeze
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To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>

On 03/13/2018 09:17 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
>>> This builds and passes 'make check', so even though the OOB portion
>>> depends on chardev fixes that are still pending a pull request from
>>> Paolo, that dependence can only be observed at runtime by clients
>>> that use the new oob feature.=C2=A0 Given the timing of soft freeze, =
and
>>> the fact that the chardev fixes do not form a build dependency, I
>>> think it's okay if this pull request gets processed before Paolo's
>>> (but it's also okay if Paolo's goes in first).
>=20
> Based on the testsuite failures, it looks like Paolo's pull request wit=
h=20
> chardev fixes DOES have to go in first.

Nearing the end of my workday; I'm not sure what the status is on=20
Paolo's pull request with the chardev fixes, but hope that it doesn't=20
invalidate this pull request from still being considered as soft freeze=20
material.

--=20
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
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