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From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Error message for device not found at
	blkif.py
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:41:12 -0500
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Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 03:59:30PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>   
>> Instead of throwing a VmError, could you subclass VmError with a more 
>> specific error and throw that?
>>     
> Fore sure I can. But what does this condition have so differently from
> others that justifies that for it only? Although I agree with you that 
> such a specificiness is good, VmError is being thrown everywhere, meaning 
> that your proposal would require touching a great amount of code change.
> Is there any plans/opposals for that?
>  
>   

BTW, check out tools/python/xen/xend/XendError.py for an example of 
where we're doing this.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori