Re: [Qemu-devel] Suggestion for testing framework

[Avi Kivity]

Glauber Costa wrote:
> > Even that is tremendously useful.  Once you identify a regression, it is
> > easy to bisect and pinpoint the offending patch, which also locates the
> > author.
> >     
>
> Not that easy, regarding bisection. Qemu does not have an as strict
> commit policy as the linux kernel, and you bet most of the commits
> won't build fine by their own.
>   

If we have such a testsuite, the motivation for bisect friendly commits 
will increase.


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