Re: [Qemu-devel] Plan for error handling in QMP

[Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>]

On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 16:08:54 -0500
Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> wrote:

> Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 15:43:58 -0300
> > Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:22:15 -0500
> >> anthony@codemonkey.ws wrote:
> >> 
> >> > 
> >> > Hi,
> >> > 
> >> > We had a violent^Wheated discussion on IRC about how to move forward
> >> > with Luiz's proposed error series.  I think we reached consensus.  This
> >> > note attempts to outline that.
> >> 
> >> This looks great to me, violent^W heated discussions can be so productive :)
> >> 
> >> > 
> >> > Principles
> >> > ----------
> >> > 1. Errors should be free formed strings with a class code
> >> > 
> >> > 2. There should be a small number of class codes (10-15) added
> >> >    strictly when there are specific users of a code.
> >
> > Btw, do we have a listing of those 10-15 errors already?
> 
> See the clause: "added strictly when there are specific users".
> 
> Users means consumers.  So don't add an error type until someone cares
> to differientiate error reasons.

What I meant is that, for 1.2 we want to reduce from 71 error codes to 10-15,
right? If that's right what are the 10-15 errors that won't be dropped?

Or did I misunderstand?