Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 00/10] pc, pci, virtio: fixes for rc1

[Peter Maydell]

On 16 November 2017 at 15:56, Michael S. Tsirkin <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 03:45:34PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 05:38:18PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>> > I think it's     test: fix detection of errors from iasl
>> > I'll drop it for now.
>>
>> I think that patch is merely exposing a failure that has always
>> happened, but which we've never noticed before. So dropping that
>> patch just hides the error again, doesn't fix the error.

> We shouldn't fail test if system can't load expected files.
> This just will trip up people trying to build qemu.

If there are known-buggy iasl versions in the wild we could
consider a configure test and treat buggy-iasl like no-iasl.

thanks
-- PMM