From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:37718) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RdKus-00071m-Qh for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:05:12 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RdKum-00040q-Sk for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:05:02 -0500 Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:34:52 +0530 From: Amit Shah Message-ID: <20111221120451.GC9080@amit-x200.redhat.com> References: <1324463877-1281-1-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1324463877-1281-1-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] scsi virtio-blk usb-msd: Clean up device init error messages List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Markus Armbruster Cc: qemu-trivial@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org On (Wed) 21 Dec 2011 [11:37:57], Markus Armbruster wrote: > Replace > > error_report("DEVICE-NAME: MESSAGE"); > > by just > > error_report("MESSAGE"); > > in block device init functions. > > DEVICE-NAME is bogus in some cases: it's "scsi-disk" for device > scsi-hd and scsi-cd, "virtio-blk-pci" for virtio-blk-s390, and > "usb-msd" for usb-storage. > > There is no real need to put a device name in the message, because > error_report() points to the offending command line option already: > > $ qemu-system-x86_64 --nodefaults --enable-kvm -vnc :0 -S -monitor stdio -usb -device virtio-blk-pci > upstream-qemu: -device virtio-blk-pci: virtio-blk-pci: drive property not set > upstream-qemu: -device virtio-blk-pci: Device 'virtio-blk-pci' could not be initialized > > And for a monitor command, it's obvious anyway: > > $ qemu-system-x86_64 --nodefaults --enable-kvm -vnc :0 -S -monitor stdio -usb > (qemu) device_add virtio-blk-pci > virtio-blk-pci: drive property not set > Device 'virtio-blk-pci' could not be initialized > > Reported-by: Amit Shah > Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster Acked-by: Amit Shah Amit