Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL for-2.9 0/9] virtio, vhost, pc: fixes

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 09:34:20AM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
> On Mon, 01/09 17:28, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > On 9 January 2017 at 16:48, Michael S. Tsirkin <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > The strange thing here is that this actually seems to apply patches
> > > from list instead of getting the tag from the tree.
> > 
> > That's because it's really supposed to be working on patches sent
> > to the list -- it only checks pull requests because it can't
> > tell them apart from patches, I think.
> 
> It can be taught not to check pull requests but I don't see a reason to, maybe
> it's better to let patchew pull the tag instead of applying, but on the other
> hand it's a bit odd to assume they two differ, that's why I haven't done it.
> 
> Fam

Well it's definitely better to actually test the pull req
as it is and not test patches applied at a random master.