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

[David Gibson]

On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 09:42:07PM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
> 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.

True.  Sounds promising.

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