[OE-core] [PATCH 1/2] qemu: upgrade to 2.10.1

Patrick Ohly patrick.ohly at intel.com
Thu Oct 26 14:38:26 UTC 2017


On Thu, 2017-10-26 at 09:37 -0500, Leonardo Sandoval wrote:
> I used devtool upgrade and the only hunk I need to remove was
> thisone, the rest were applied cleanly.

The rest was applied *silently*, but not *cleanly*. The lesson here is
basically that developers shouldn't blindly trust the tools. If
something is odd, investigate.

What was odd in this case is that it looked like a patch was partially
merged. Why would anyone do that? And indeed, it was merged completely.

-- 
Best Regards, Patrick Ohly

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