Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Changing error message of QMP 'migrate_set_downtime' to seconds

[Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>]

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On 02/17/2017 01:01 PM, Daniel Henrique Barboza wrote:

>>> 2000000)) {
>>> +        (params->downtime_limit < 0 ||
>>> +         params->downtime_limit > MAX_MIGRATE_SET_DOWNTIME)) {
>>>           error_setg(errp, QERR_INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE,
>>>                      "downtime_limit",
>>> -                   "an integer in the range of 0 to 2000000
>>> milliseconds");
>>> +                   "an integer in the range of 0 to 2000 seconds");
>> Perhaps you could use %d and set  MAX_MIGRATE_SET_DOWNTIME to 2000?
>> Though perhaps the migration maintainers are okay with the patch as is.
> 
> I did that at first but I got errors on "error_setg" about the extra
> parameter.

Ah, right, because QERR_INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE is a macro that expands
to a fixed printf-style format string where you have to know how many
exact arguments it further expects.  The only way around that is to
open-code the error message you want, instead of forcing the use of the
awkward macro.

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
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