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

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 05:16:30PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 8 June 2018 at 17:03, Michael S. Tsirkin <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Pull requests are somewhat different, they are usually tested for lack
> > of warnings. This change didn't arrive as a result of a pull request
> > maybe that's why it slipped through the cracks. Peter?
> >
> > Maybe we need a "pedantic" flag to fail on any warnings, or just catch
> > output to stderr.
> 
> 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.
> 
> thanks
> -- PMM

It's ok if it happens, but it just makes debugging and reviewing
ACPI patches a little bit harder until it's fixed.

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MST