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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-stable] [PATCH v2 0/6] Some -smbios work


From: mdroth
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-stable] [PATCH v2 0/6] Some -smbios work
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:22:53 -0500
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 01:36:04PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Would this make sense for -stable?  Impact is modest: fix a rather
> obscure feature of x86 targets on bigendian hosts, and improve error
> messages around it).  On the other hand, the patches look pretty safe to
> me.

5/6 was certainly a good candidate. I was going to cherry-pick it but
I agree the other patches looked safe to I went ahead and applied the
series:

https://github.com/mdroth/qemu/commits/stable-1.5-staging

> 
> Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Better error messages, a bit of code cleanup, and a big endian fix.
> >
> > Not addressed: qemu_uuid_parse() sets an SMBIOS field by side effect.
> > Gross!
> >
> > Testing:
> > * Verify error messages improve for
> >     -smbios gaga
> >     -smbios file=gaga
> >     -smbios type=42
> >     -smbios type=1,uuid=gaga
> >     -smbios type=0,release=gaga
> > * Verify SMBIOS table remains unchanged
> >     -smbios type=0,vendor=me,version=42,date=today,release=1.2 -smbios 
> > type=1,manufacturer=me,product=crap,version=6,serial=77,uuid=988bc9dd-0986-440f-ac24-cf9626c5aa88,sku=888,family=flintstones
> >   by sticking
> >       qemu_hexdump(smbios_entries, stdout, "SMBIOS", smbios_entries_len);
> >   into smbios_get_table()
> >
> > v2: Address "Hawkeye" Laszlo's review
> > * 1-3/7 unchanged
> > * Drop 4/7 because it's buggy, and the fixed version isn't worthwhile
> > * Spelling fix in commit message of 5/7
> > * Correct scanf format in 5-6/7
> >
> > Markus Armbruster (6):
> >   error-report.h: Supply missing include
> >   log.h: Supply missing includes
> >   smbios: Convert to error_report()
> >   smbios: Clean up smbios_add_field() parameters
> >   smbios: Fix -smbios type=0,release=... for big endian hosts
> >   smbios: Check R in -smbios type=0,release=R parses okay
> >
> >  arch_init.c                 |  3 +--
> >  hw/i386/smbios.c            | 57 
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
> >  include/hw/i386/smbios.h    |  2 +-
> >  include/qemu/error-report.h |  1 +
> >  include/qemu/log.h          |  3 +++
> >  5 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
> 



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