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From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2018 17:14:09 +0100
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [qemu PATCH 2/5] acpi: "make check" should fail on
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To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
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On 8 June 2018 at 16:59, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> The expected value tests are a debugging aid. They do not catch bugs and
> aren't designed to. In particular the comparisons do not even run if
> IASL isn't installed.

If they're not actually tests to catch bugs, maybe we shouldn't
be running them in "make check" ?

thanks
-- PMM
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