On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 06:51:30 -0700 Anthony Liguori <anth...@codemonkey.ws> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 10:28 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 03:42:37PM -0700, Anthony Liguori wrote: > >> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <m...@redhat.com> writes: > >> > >> > Anthony, I know you wanted to review some of the patches, > >> > since you didn't respond either all's well or you > >> > could not find the time. > >> > I think we are better off merging them for 1.7 and then - worst case, > >> > if major issues surface - disabling the functionality at the last minute > >> > than delaying the merge even more. > >> > >> There is no way I'll pull this for 1.7. Changes like this aren't going > >> to get merged at the last minute. > > > > Last minute? This has been on list for months. > > It doesn't matter how long the patches have been on the list. We have > a very short testing cycle for releases. > > This pull request lacks any automated testing. Something like this > really should come with at least some qtest validation that we are > still generating the right ACPI tables but certainly could have > simpler unit tests too. > > There is no statement about what manual testing you actually did. > Have you run kvm autotest? Have you tested a variety of Windows > guests? I've manually boot/install tested a bunch of x64 based OSes rhel6/fc18/ws2008/ws2012/ws2003r2/XP There were no regressions so far.