Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 16/17] x86: introduce new defconfigs for PV and HVM

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 09:19:45AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 04.10.18 at 17:43, <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > They will be used by build tests.
> 
> And is it difficult for the build tests to set these up themselves?

I specifically said "build tests" but not "CI systems".

It wouldn't be very difficult for a CI system to generate these files,
but my idea is that providing these in tree can make things more
convenient for humans -- developers and maintainers.

Suppose you want a contributor to test their changes, instead of writing
"first please generate the following files, and then ...", you just give
them a rune / some runes to reference these files directly. There
doesn't need explaining and no ambiguity will arise. And if there is
disagreement on what work or what doesn't, it would be easy to
reproduce.

To me this is a clear win: a small investment that comes with long term
benefit.

> I don't really like such additions, in particular the neither-PV-nor-
> HVM one (which is otherwise completely useless). At the very
> least that one should gain a comment saying it exists for build
> testing only.
> 

Sure, I can do that.

Wei.

> Jan
> 
> 

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