Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qdev: show failing device name instead of silently exiting

[Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>]

Hey Markus,

On (Wed) Sep 23 2009 [22:53:27], Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > If initializing a device fails, show the name of the device
> > and then exit
> 
> "and then exit" is misleading, as you don't add an exit.

The 'return NULL' does that -- the calling function exits.
(doesn't the subject line clarify that?)

> > Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  hw/qdev.c |    1 +
> >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/hw/qdev.c b/hw/qdev.c
> > index 1d79db0..62a6fc7 100644
> > --- a/hw/qdev.c
> > +++ b/hw/qdev.c
> > @@ -203,6 +203,7 @@ DeviceState *qdev_device_add(QemuOpts *opts)
> >          return NULL;
> >      }
> >      if (qdev_init(qdev) != 0) {
> > +        qemu_error("Error initializing device %s\n", driver);
> >          qdev_free(qdev);
> >          return NULL;
> >      }

		Amit