Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5] Add timestamp to error_report()

[Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>]

On 07/01/13 20:54, Seiji Aguchi wrote:
> [Issue]
> When we offer a customer support service and a problem happens
> in a customer's system, we try to understand the problem by
> comparing what the customer reports with message logs of the
> customer's system.
> 
> In this case, we often need to know when the problem happens.
> 
> But, currently, there is no timestamp in qemu's error messages.
> Therefore, we may not be able to understand the problem based on
> error messages.
> 
> [Solution]
> Add a timestamp to qemu's error message logged by
> error_report() with g_time_val_to_iso8601().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
> ---
> Changelog
>  v4 -> v5
>  - Use sizeof() to define TIMESTAMP_LEN.
>  - Fix descriptions of msg option.
>  - Rename TIME_H to QEMU_TIME_H. (avoiding double inclusion of qemu/time.h)
>  - Change argument of qemu_get_timestamp_str to "char *" and "size_t".
>  - Confirmed msg option is displayed by query-command-line-options.

Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>

Since you plan to post followup patches, please at that time include a
one-liner modification: the STEXI-ETEXI section in "qemu-options.hx"
still says (right before ETEXI) "(disabled by default)". I think it
should be fixed in a followup, not by posting v6.

Thanks!
Laszlo