Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] virtio: avoid inappropriate QEMU termination

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 03:44:33PM +0200, Greg Kurz wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Sep 2016 06:35:04 -0700 (PDT)
> address@hidden wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Your series failed automatic build test. Please find the testing commands 
> > and
> > their output below. If you have docker installed, you can probably 
> > reproduce it
> > locally.
> > 
> 
> Heh... of course patchew doesn't know about Stefan's series. :)
> 
> Is there an appropriate way to avoid complaints when sending a patchset that
> isn't based on QEMU master ?

It's a good idea to be explicit which tree does the patchset
target, and on top of which patches it is applied.

qemu master is kind of the default, but even then it's
a good idea to tell everyone which hash it was based on -
imagine someone trying to use your patchset several years from now.

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