Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] docs: Add docs/devel/testing.rst

2018-01-31 Thread Fam Zheng
On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 10:24 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 01/30/2018 09:28 PM, Fam Zheng wrote: >> To make our efforts on QEMU testing easier to consume by contributors, >> let's add a document. For example, Patchew reports build errors on >> patches that should be relatively easy to reproduce with

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] docs: Add docs/devel/testing.rst

2018-01-31 Thread Fam Zheng
On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 9:49 PM, Andrew Jones wrote: > On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 11:28:00AM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote: >> +On top of libqtest, a higher level library, ``libqos``, was created to >> +encapsulate common tasks of device drivers, such as memory management and >> +communicating with system b

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] docs: Add docs/devel/testing.rst

2018-01-31 Thread Eric Blake
On 01/30/2018 09:28 PM, Fam Zheng wrote: > To make our efforts on QEMU testing easier to consume by contributors, > let's add a document. For example, Patchew reports build errors on > patches that should be relatively easy to reproduce with a few steps, and > it is much nicer if there is such a do

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] docs: Add docs/devel/testing.rst

2018-01-31 Thread Andrew Jones
On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 11:28:00AM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote: > To make our efforts on QEMU testing easier to consume by contributors, > let's add a document. For example, Patchew reports build errors on > patches that should be relatively easy to reproduce with a few steps, and > it is much nicer if

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] docs: Add docs/devel/testing.rst

2018-01-31 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 11:28:00AM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote: > To make our efforts on QEMU testing easier to consume by contributors, > let's add a document. For example, Patchew reports build errors on > patches that should be relatively easy to reproduce with a few steps, and > it is much nicer if

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] docs: Add docs/devel/testing.rst

2018-01-30 Thread Fam Zheng
To make our efforts on QEMU testing easier to consume by contributors, let's add a document. For example, Patchew reports build errors on patches that should be relatively easy to reproduce with a few steps, and it is much nicer if there is such a documentation that it can refer to. This focuses o