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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/2] Acceptance tests for qemu-img
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Cleber Rosa |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/2] Acceptance tests for qemu-img |
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Tue, 13 Nov 2018 09:41:07 -0500 |
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On 11/13/18 8:50 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 10:39:57AM +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> Drive-by comment...
>>
>> Cleber Rosa <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> [...]
>>> My impression is that the "infrastructure for block tests" is not that
>>> different from the infrastructure needed by other tests, specially other
>>> QEMU tests.
>> [...]
>>
>> Yes. The actual reason for having a completely separate testing
>> infrastructure for block tests is that it predates testing
>> infrastructure for anything else.
>>
>> Moving the tests to common infrastructure would be a sizable one-time
>> effort we can ill afford. Maintaining multiple testing infrastructures
>> is an ongoing effort we can also ill afford.
>
> If we do want to move to a common infrastructure, then IMHO this patch
> series should do the work to convert qemu-iotests to use it.
>
> Currently this is simply introducing a 2nd way to write block tests.
>
> We know from bitter experiance that when we introduce a new system in
> QEMU without converting the old system, the old system will live forever
> increasing our maint burden & creatnig confusion for developers about
> which is the preferred approach.
>
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
>
Right, I don't think there's enough momentum or interest in doing that
right now. As myself and Kevin suggested, the best solution at this
point may be wrapping the qemu-iotests without touching them.
Regards,
- Cleber.
- [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 2/2] qemu-img: consider a zero number of I/O requests an invalid count, (continued)
- [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 2/2] qemu-img: consider a zero number of I/O requests an invalid count, Cleber Rosa, 2018/11/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/2] Acceptance tests for qemu-img, Kevin Wolf, 2018/11/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/2] Acceptance tests for qemu-img, Cleber Rosa, 2018/11/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/2] Acceptance tests for qemu-img, Daniel P . Berrangé, 2018/11/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/2] Acceptance tests for qemu-img, Kevin Wolf, 2018/11/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/2] Acceptance tests for qemu-img, Cleber Rosa, 2018/11/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/2] Acceptance tests for qemu-img, Markus Armbruster, 2018/11/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/2] Acceptance tests for qemu-img, Daniel P . Berrangé, 2018/11/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/2] Acceptance tests for qemu-img,
Cleber Rosa <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/2] Acceptance tests for qemu-img, Kevin Wolf, 2018/11/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/2] Acceptance tests for qemu-img, Eduardo Habkost, 2018/11/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/2] Acceptance tests for qemu-img, Kevin Wolf, 2018/11/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/2] Acceptance tests for qemu-img, Eduardo Habkost, 2018/11/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/2] Acceptance tests for qemu-img, Cleber Rosa, 2018/11/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/2] Acceptance tests for qemu-img, Eduardo Habkost, 2018/11/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/2] Acceptance tests for qemu-img, Cleber Rosa, 2018/11/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/2] Acceptance tests for qemu-img, Eduardo Habkost, 2018/11/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/2] Acceptance tests for qemu-img, Cleber Rosa, 2018/11/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/2] Acceptance tests for qemu-img, Kevin Wolf, 2018/11/13