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From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>
To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ian Pratt <m+Ian.Pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk>,
	xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
	"Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Re: Error reporting capabilities for libxc
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:47:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <453DC4FC.7040902@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <453D30D3.6090007@us.ibm.com>

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> I know it's a bigger patch, but the Right Thing to do here is to just
> propagate an error code through the libxc functions.

That doesn't allow a descriptive text message, which is often quite
useful to figure what went wrong in detail.  error codes such as errno
== EINVAL are not very helpful for trouble shooting ...

What number space we are talking about btw?  errno?  something else?

cheers,
  Gerd

-- 
Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>
http://www.suse.de/~kraxel/julika-dora.jpeg

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-10-24  7:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-26 12:58 Error reporting capabilities for libxc Ian Pratt
2006-09-26 13:20 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2006-10-23 18:00 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2006-10-23 19:17   ` Anthony Liguori
2006-10-23 19:27     ` Daniel P. Berrange
2006-10-23 20:04       ` Anthony Liguori
2006-10-23 20:08         ` Daniel P. Berrange
2006-10-23 20:54       ` Ian Pratt
2006-10-23 20:57         ` Daniel P. Berrange
2006-10-23 21:10           ` Ian Pratt
2006-10-23 21:14             ` Anthony Liguori
2006-10-23 21:28               ` Daniel P. Berrange
2006-10-23 21:38                 ` Anthony Liguori
2006-10-23 21:47                   ` John Levon
2006-10-24  9:15                     ` Daniel Veillard
2006-10-23 21:48                   ` Daniel P. Berrange
2006-10-24  7:47               ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
2006-10-24  9:07                 ` Keir Fraser
2006-10-24 10:26                   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2006-10-23 21:21             ` Daniel P. Berrange
2006-10-23 22:15               ` Ian Pratt
2006-10-23 23:05                 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2006-10-23 20:40   ` John Levon
2006-10-23 21:04   ` John Levon
2006-10-23 21:09     ` Daniel P. Berrange

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