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From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/5] block: Fix error report for wrong file format
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:28:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50F86D0D.7030104@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1358455528-29813-1-git-send-email-sw@weilnetz.de>

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On 01/17/2013 01:45 PM, Stefan Weil wrote:
> These patches improve the error report if the file format was
> specified explicitly (example: -drive file=myfile,format=qcow2)
> and the given format does not match the real format.
> 
> They fix those bugs:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=556482
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1090600
> 
> Changes in v2:
> 
> * Use error code EMEDIUMTYPE instead of inventing a new one.

Alas, EMEDIUMTYPE is non-standard, and doesn't exist outside of Linux.
If you are providing fallbacks for half the platforms because you don't
want to use a standard errno value, then why not go all the way and use
a fallback for all platforms.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-01-17 21:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-17 20:45 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/5] block: Fix error report for wrong file format Stefan Weil
2013-01-17 20:45 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/5] block: Add special error code for wrong format Stefan Weil
2013-01-17 20:45 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/5] block: Use error code EMEDIUMTYPE for wrong format in some block drivers Stefan Weil
2013-01-18  8:53   ` Markus Armbruster
2013-01-18 18:10     ` Stefan Weil
2013-01-21 11:03       ` Markus Armbruster
2013-01-17 20:45 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 3/5] block/vdi: Improve debug output for signature Stefan Weil
2013-01-17 20:45 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 4/5] block/vdi: Improved return values from vdi_open Stefan Weil
2013-01-17 20:45 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 5/5] block/vdi: Check for bad signature Stefan Weil
2013-01-17 21:28 ` Eric Blake [this message]
2013-01-17 22:25   ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/5] block: Fix error report for wrong file format Stefan Weil
2013-01-17 22:41     ` Eric Blake

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