On 5 February 2014 13:00, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote: > On 5 February 2014 12:24, Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> wrote: >> As to why it's complicated for Peter to fix, here's what Peter wrote: >> "That series got very big on me with complications. I think near term >> we just proceed with the revert. Sorry for the delay." I have no >> reason to second-guess him. >> >> Promptly reverting patches that cause regressions when a fix isn't ready >> is standard operating procedure. We can delay a revert a reasonable >> amount of time to deliberate what to do, and perhaps find a fix. We did >> that, and then some: four weeks. We should revert, and try again. >> Neither harm nor shame in that. > > I agree in general here, which is why I'm going to apply this patch.
Following conversation on IRC and Andreas' recent patch: given that the current state of affairs (ie 'info qtest crashes') has been in master for six months, there doesn't seem to be a critically urgent need to act immediately, so I'm going to give it a few days to check that we have a consensus on the best way to deal with this. thanks -- PMM
