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From: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QMP: RFC: I/O error info & query-stop-reason
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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>, jdenemar@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:43:27 -0500
Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> wrote:

> On 06/07/2011 12:43 PM, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> > On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:32:14 -0500
> > Anthony Liguori<anthony@codemonkey.ws>  wrote:
> >
> >> Sorry, I meant to ask, what's the difference between "low level" and
> >> "unknown".
> >
> > "low level" is EIO, "unknown" is everything else (EINVAL, EPIPE, ...).
> 
> How can you document this to the user?  What is a management tool 
> supposed to do differently if it receives "low level" vs. "unknown".
> 
> AFAICT, the tool is going to treat the both the same way and can't make 
> a rational decision based on the different.  IMHO, that means it's 
> effectively the same thing.

It's fine with me for having "low level" be both then.

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Anthony Liguori
> 
> >
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Anthony Liguori
> >>
> >>>
> >>> What's your suggestion?
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
>