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Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:36:51 +0000
From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/10]: QError v4
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To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, kraxel@redhat.com

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Markus Armbruster wrote:
> >3. It falls short of the requirement that clients can easily present a
> >   human-readable error description to their human users, regardless of
> >   whether they know the error or not.
> >  
> 
> That's just incorrect.  We provide an example conversion table that's 
> akin to strerror() or a __repr__ for an exception in Python.

Markus refers to errors that the client does not know - i.e. when the
client is older than qemu, or is not in the same development branch if
it's a branched qemu.  Which means the client won't have a fully up to
date conversion table.

Do you mean qemu provides it's current conversion table to the client
over the wire protocol?

-- Jamie