From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, pbonzini@redhat.com,
"Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>,
"Markus Armbruster" <armbru@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/2] QMP command qom-new
Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 09:10:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FBE4168.4000204@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA8wMaf46S_YRq4w7qVVaa++kqRW=JWKsJj6yW+0A05T9g@mail.gmail.com>
On 05/24/2012 08:18 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 24 May 2012 14:06, Anthony Liguori<anthony@codemonkey.ws> wrote:
>> There are very few places where errors can be handled gracefully. They are
>> exceptions and can be treated as such.
>>
>> I think it's far better for the QOM infrastructure to assert when it detects
>> something bad because 99% of the users of QOM do not even attempt to handle
>> errors gracefully
>
> Last time I was trying to argue for keeping the "create, set properties,
> realize" interface for devices/objects as simple as possible you wanted
> it to have an error-return interface rather than asserting...
You need to be more specific than that I'm afraid..
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
>
> -- PMM
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-24 14:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-24 11:43 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/2] QMP command qom-new Markus Armbruster
2012-05-24 11:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 1/2] qom: Give type_get_by_name() external linkage Markus Armbruster
2012-05-24 11:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 2/2] qmp: New command qom-new Markus Armbruster
2012-05-24 11:51 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-05-24 12:58 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-05-24 13:01 ` Andreas Färber
2012-05-24 13:44 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-05-24 14:12 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-05-24 13:04 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-05-24 13:48 ` Igor Mammedov
2012-05-24 14:01 ` Andreas Färber
2012-05-24 14:07 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-05-24 15:33 ` Igor Mammedov
2012-05-24 14:04 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-05-24 14:24 ` Markus Armbruster
2012-05-24 15:15 ` Michael Roth
2012-05-24 12:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/2] QMP " Andreas Färber
2012-05-24 13:06 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-05-24 13:18 ` Peter Maydell
2012-05-24 14:10 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2012-05-24 14:23 ` Peter Maydell
2012-05-24 14:35 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-05-24 14:52 ` Peter Maydell
2012-05-24 14:08 ` Markus Armbruster
2012-05-24 14:31 ` Andreas Färber
2012-05-24 14:48 ` Markus Armbruster
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