Re: [PULL 00/23] QEMU changes for 7.0 soft freeze

[Thomas Huth]

On 08/03/2022 12.31, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 3/8/22 09:14, Thomas Huth wrote:
> > You now need to revert commit db4b2133b8d ('Quote "case not run" lines in 
> > TAP mode'), too, which has just been merged yesterday.
> >
> > But instead of reverting, couldn't we simply go ahead with my series here 
> > instead to restore the output of failed iotests:
> >
> >   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2022-02/msg05031.html
>
> That one also drops the progress report of non-failed tests, so I'm not sure 
> it's an improvement.

That only works here anyway if I don't run "make check" with the "-jX" 
option ... which I hardly do, since it then takes forever to finish the 
testing. So at least for me that's not really a reason.

>   Also the commit message for that one should mention 
> that it's a meson bug, IMO we should ask distros to backport the trivial fix 
> to --verbose 
> (https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/commit/c3f145ca2b9f5a4cfac3ffe1de7d901a4e8aba10.patch). 

Ok ... could you maybe ask the meson folks to include the fix in the 
upcoming stable releases?
... the meson master branch has been switched to Python 3.7 already, but 
AFAIU we still target Python 3.6 in QEMU, so I'm not sure whether we will be 
able to jump on the next main release with QEMU... we might need to stick 
with a 0.61.x release for a while in the future?

Since the fix is not available in any meson release yet and we're in QEMU 
softfreeze now, I'm now also not quite sure anymore whether we really should 
go forward with the TAP approach right now... maybe it's indeed better to 
revert the patches for QEMU 7.0 and sort it out later?

 Thomas