Re: [Qemu-devel] [for-2.12 0/7] PCI cleanups

[Fam Zheng]

On Wed, 12/06 00:06, David Gibson wrote:
> > > Another approach would be to have a "known good" build that runs every
> > > so often.  If the known good build fails, the bot disables itself (and
> > > tells you to investigate).  Obviously there are ways that could not
> > > work as well, but it should catch a fair range of spurious failures.
> > 
> > Interesting idea, yes. A slightly simplified way is to test the "base" of 
> > the
> > series and only report errors if the base can pass.
> 
> Right.  I think that would catch even more cases, but means doing the
> "base" build every time, which might slow things down significantly.

Every time when a test on topic branch failed, but not necessarily when it
passed, which is not that bad.

Fam