Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> writes: > 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.
Waiting a few more days for a fix is fine with me.