On 10/18/2016 03:27 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > * Halil Pasic (pa...@linux.vnet.ibm.com) wrote: >> > The handling of VMStateField.start is currently quite broken if >> > VMS_ALLOC is present (that is for VMSTATE_VBUFFER_ALLOC_UINT32) but >> > fortunately also quite underutilized -- nobody is using .start != 0. >> > >> > Let's prove with this patch that it's really broken (as a first >> > step towards fixing things up). > You can't play this trick - patch series have to work and pass > tests after each test, otherwise it messes up people in the future > trying to do a git bisect. > > Dave >
I think I understand the motivation. Does that mean you are not supposed to expose a bug via a test? I might be able to demonstrate that something is wrong but unable to fix the problem myself (time constraints). How was I supposed to do this? Cheers, Halil
