Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Revert "nand: Don't inherit from Sysbus"

[Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>]

On 5 February 2014 13:00, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
> On 5 February 2014 12:24, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
>> As to why it's complicated for Peter to fix, here's what Peter wrote:
>> "That series got very big on me with complications.  I think near term
>> we just proceed with the revert.  Sorry for the delay."  I have no
>> reason to second-guess him.
>>
>> Promptly reverting patches that cause regressions when a fix isn't ready
>> is standard operating procedure.  We can delay a revert a reasonable
>> amount of time to deliberate what to do, and perhaps find a fix.  We did
>> that, and then some: four weeks.  We should revert, and try again.
>> Neither harm nor shame in that.
>
> I agree in general here, which is why I'm going to apply this patch.

Following conversation on IRC and Andreas' recent patch:
given that the current state of affairs (ie 'info qtest crashes') has been
in master for six months, there doesn't seem to be a critically urgent
need to act immediately, so I'm going to give it a few days to check
that we have a consensus on the best way to deal with this.

thanks
-- PMM