Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/19] Fix and improve chardev open error messages

2012-02-24 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 02/07/2012 08:09 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: Our chardev open error messages are an embarrassment. Commit 6e1db57b tried to improve the useless "opening backend FOO failed" message in qemu_chr_open_opts(), but it is flawed: some failure modes went from an unhelpful "failed" to an outright mi

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/19] Fix and improve chardev open error messages

2012-02-07 Thread Markus Armbruster
Our chardev open error messages are an embarrassment. Commit 6e1db57b tried to improve the useless "opening backend FOO failed" message in qemu_chr_open_opts(), but it is flawed: some failure modes went from an unhelpful "failed" to an outright misleading error message (see first patch for details

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/19] Fix and improve chardev open error messages

2012-02-07 Thread Kevin Wolf
Am 07.02.2012 15:09, schrieb Markus Armbruster: > Our chardev open error messages are an embarrassment. Commit 6e1db57b > tried to improve the useless "opening backend FOO failed" message in > qemu_chr_open_opts(), but it is flawed: some failure modes went from > an unhelpful "failed" to an outrig